What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

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.

You will find the limit of strength with every new situation.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

I love going to tag sales, to auctions.

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.

Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.