Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

The first day of the rest of my life.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.