You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

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.

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

‎Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Home is where we have a history.