No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

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.

She counted each second, each moment of life stolen from her, moving her closer to death.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

A day in the life of Ronnie Coleman mainly consists of eating, training or sleeping.

A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.