I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see 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.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it

What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.

No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

We are united in a wait-and-see approach.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.