David Baldacci Quotes - Page 2

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.

Trapped in a trap of your own making.

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.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

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

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 hours of research.

Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.

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

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

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 many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

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

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

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

I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

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.

Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

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

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.