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.
More Quotes by Walter Lord
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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.
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.