I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

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 ought to pray, read and mediate on word of God. These acts lead to the greatest spiritual awaken.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

You're the cleverest witch I've ever met Hermione.

A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.

Everything is connected

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.

I'm pretty much the same. I'm consistent. There aren't two mes. There is only one me. I can only be myself, and that's who I always am whether I'm at home or on the carpet.

The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.