Laura Hillenbrand (born May 15, 1967) is an American author of books and magazine articles. Read full biography of Laura Hillenbrand →
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or... →
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a... →
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
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... →
The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a... →
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... →
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... →
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
Laura Hillenbrand (born May 15, 1967) is an American author of books and magazine articles.