The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

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.

A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

I'm a love-it-or-hate-it person. I don't waffle.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.