Erik Larson Quotes

“I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.'

The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. While energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points.

I ask my colleagues and their staffs to see to it that their reports are shorter.”
― Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

“I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word." Burnham said.

Larson wrote, "The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City