I’m a wicked ping-pong player.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they’ve sold their soul to the devil so...

I’m tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

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.

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then...

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not...

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

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don’t see that it’s crucial for a democracy!

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

A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right...

People who have expertise just love to share it. That’s human nature.

I’m ever curious about the world. I’m driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

It’s my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they’re going. For them it’s the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this...

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.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer ‘This can never end up in a book.’ And it never does.

It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living,...

I’d read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it’s gone, it doesn’t comeback.

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and...

It’s been my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they’re going. For them it’s the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop...

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and...

Pender laughed. “Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It’s all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

I want you to know that if I could’ve stayed with you I would have. I fought as hard as I could. I will never understand why I had to be taken from you so...

Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the things we...

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

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

She apparently didn’t expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.

He’d been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants […], which he’d accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

I’m driven to go out and find new things to write about.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.

If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure...

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

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

you ask too many questions,” snapped Cletus.I kept my gaze on Roman. “that’s because I get too few answers.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?