“I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.” — Erik Larson Quote

“I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.”

“It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.”

“My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.”

“I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.”

“I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'”

“If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.”