I read almost exclusively nonfiction when I read, because even though it’s harder to find a great true story, when you find one, the idea that it actually happened is immensely powerful.That’s what moves me the most. Robert Kurson Read Quote
I love nonfiction the most. It’s hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that’s why I’m not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They’re hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he’s terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way. Robert Kurson Read Quote
Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can’t look away. Robert Kurson Read Quote
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether. Robert Kurson Read Quote
The more I learned about real pirates, the more exciting they seemed to me. They appeared to be even more dramatic than pirates of the movies or TV shows. Robert Kurson Read Quote
There is pressure when you have a very big book like ‘Shadow Divers’ to follow up with something big. But you can’t let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it. Robert Kurson Read Quote
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey. Robert Kurson Read Quote
I think that pirates represent every person’s ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they’ve never done before or even dreamed of doing. Robert Kurson Read Quote
John Chatterton is the kind of person who always seems to be up to some kind of incredible adventure. Robert Kurson Read Quote