Walter Lord Quotes

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.

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 look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.