Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

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.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

They were too much to carryso i left them behindfor a new life, in a new placebut no one forgot who i wasi didn'tand neither did the people who watchthey watched for yearsthey watch now

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.