Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared’s neck.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting startups.

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?