Ten of My Favorite Erik Larson Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Erik Larson, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Erik Larson you will find my Ten favorites of Erik Larson’s quotes.
About Erik Larson
Erik Larson is the author of five national bestsellers: Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac’s Storm, which collectively have sold more than nine million copies. The books he has written have been published in nearly twenty countries.
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Popular Quotes
“His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“The track lingered on the surface like a long pale scar. In maritime vernacular, this trail of fading disturbance, whether from ship or torpedo, was called a “dead wake.”
― Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
“I was born with the devil in me,’ [Holmes] wrote. ‘I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.”
― Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
“Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.
Daniel H. Burnham”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
10 Famous Quotes by Author Erik Larson
So there you have it my Ten favorite quotes by Erik Larson, please comment below and share your favorite quotes by the fantastic author Erik Larson. Furthermore, if you find any Authors not covered for there, top 10 quotes let me know and I will review their works and find some of their best quotes as has been done here for Erik Larson.
One Final Bonus – Erik Larson Quote
“My favorite “trick” is to stop writing at a point where I know that I can pick up easily the next day. I’ll stop in mid-paragraph, often in midsentence. It makes getting out of bed so much easier, because I know that all I’ll have to do to be productive is complete the sentence. And by then I’ll be seated at my desk, coffee and Oreo cookie at hand, the morning’s inertia overcome. There’s an added advantage: The human brain hates incomplete sentences. All night my mind will have secretly worked on the passage and likely mapped out the remainder of the page, even the chapter, while simultaneously sending me on a dinner date with Cate Blanchett.”
― Erik Larson
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