Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

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.

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.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Success is focusing on your A-list. Success is thinking profits. Success is doing only what works. Success is easier when you tread the path that leads to success

mia knew the weight that said nothing will ever be different from what it is now, that the world has lost all dimension and has turned to stone.

I’ve got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

I see my parents a lot more often, but what I liked about the challenge of my part was I got to have those little kid feelings of being the daughter, and then switching and being a Mom.

Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.

If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.