The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for…

I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better.

— Erik Larson

As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about…

— Erik Larson

“look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far…

— Erik Larson

That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side.

— Erik Larson

“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades…

— Erik Larson

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

— Erik Larson

“At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.”

— Erik Larson

I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid…

— Erik Larson

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he…

— Erik Larson

I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

— Erik Larson

Trying to find ideas is the hardest part of my job. You'd think it would be the most fun. Just sitting around reading whatever…

— Erik Larson

“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,”

— Erik Larson

“Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives.”

— Erik Larson

I figured, correctly, that Berlin in February was not a destination coveted by tourists. I found good airfares on Lufthansa, an airline I quite…

— Erik Larson

“It was truly a transitional moment: There he was, at the cusp of the twentieth century, using the telephone to send a telegram.”

— Erik Larson