All Erik Larson Quotes
- Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes. Activity
- Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of… Ambient
- Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell… All
- No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. Cared
- Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world Astonished
- Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead. Dead
- Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere. Everywhere
- I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. All
- I pride myself on having a journalistic remove. Funny
- I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E.… Big
- I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself… Adding
- I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department. Anti
- I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. Book
- Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. Blank
- There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me… Foul
- Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed… Anomalous
- Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his… Book
- I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. Bookstore
- The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. Adult
- It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had… Chicago
- I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. Best
- I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the… Born
- . . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. Allotment
- Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful… Beautiful
- Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment… Allotment