Quotes by Erik Larson

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.

As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I dont think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but being a former journalist, Im always interested in, like, why write about something today? Why do it now?