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.

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

The eyes of others my our prisons

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother.

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom.

One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.

Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.