Quotes by Walter Lord

• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
• It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.
• You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
• There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
• Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
• I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
• Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
• Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
• It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.