Laura Hillenbrand

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

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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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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. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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