Literary Birthday – 15 May – Laura Hillenbrand

Happy Birthday, Laura Hillenbrand, born on 15 May 1967.

Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
4. Without dignity, identity is erased.  In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
5. I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Lauren Hillenbrand is an American author of books and magazine articles. Her books include the bestselling Seabiscuit: An American Legend and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Both were adapted for film. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, ‘A Sudden Illness’, won the National Magazine Award. Her work has also appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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by Amanda Patterson

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