I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

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.

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.