And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well Laura Hillenbrand More Quotes by Laura Hillenbrand More Quotes From Laura Hillenbrand Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling. Laura Hillenbrand fate emotional men I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest Laura Hillenbrand publishing-house agents hollywood I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf Laura Hillenbrand trouble matter thinking Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. Laura Hillenbrand oxygen essentials water I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project Laura Hillenbrand dysfunction get-better poor I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me Laura Hillenbrand aspiration yearning listening-to-music I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know Laura Hillenbrand pain giving years I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen Laura Hillenbrand creativity writing thinking I had been writing professionally since 1988 Laura Hillenbrand writing Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison Laura Hillenbrand horse book thinking Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went Laura Hillenbrand jobs book people Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it Laura Hillenbrand saws editors looks I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it Laura Hillenbrand used world moving This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind. Laura Hillenbrand self-worth heart lying Well, in the years in which I've been exhausted it's been something where I've had to drag myself to my computer or to my telephone to do interviews. Laura Hillenbrand health The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House. Laura Hillenbrand random go wednesday house It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out. Laura Hillenbrand only go secret morning I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. Laura Hillenbrand me man confused book I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book. Laura Hillenbrand suffering time book thinking
