I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

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.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

Let the experiment be made.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."