I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

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.

It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable indulgent affectionate shy and rather timid at heart.

There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.