“This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I...” — Laura Hillenbrand Quote

“This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.”

“I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.”

“I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.”

“Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.”

“I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.”

“For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.”

“When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed.”

“Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.”

“When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.”

“I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.”

“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.”

“I don't get time to read often - the last hour before bed is somehow always spent clearing up the day's mess instead.”