Quotes from Stuart Woods

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

Think about this carefully, Felicity, before you answer: Is there a

sports. "Gita

This is Jake.

to wander among the neat rows of boutiques.

I believe you dropped something

one never knows, do

Who's Fats Waller?" "Oh, you child! A large, brilliant pianist, songwriter, and singer of the 1920s and '30s.

I think Mark's death was

But with a casino, people show up and happily plunk their money down to buy nothing. Money for nothing. That's the best business in the world.

landing strip." Mike

Mounting Fears‡

Well then, all I can say to you on the subject is that God made us all, and he made us as we are. Evan and I no more chose our sexual orientation than you chose yours." "You're quite right, I suppose. I didn't choose to be heterosexual, I just was." "And there you have it in a nutshell." Manolo

My job in my marriage was to choose houses and decorate them," she said. "My husband's job was to pay for them. Making money was the only thing that interested him, and he didn't care what I spent.

Stone reckoned that most of the innocent people in prison had been sent there by police officers and prosecutors who reasoned that these victims were, after all, probably guilty of something, and better a conviction of an innocent person than no conviction at all.

gunshot wound to the head. He called 911.

Yes, boss," Rosie said.

instructions that he wanted his body

boredom is a self-inflicted wound. Heal thyself.

work on it." "What do you think of it?

Dino put his feet up and chatted for a couple of minutes, then he put down the phone and returned to the table. Okay, he said, the ME confirms his first estimate of time of death. The girl had a tiny purse tucked into her vagina, just big enough to hold her driver's license, a credit card, and a few bucks. Her name is Elizabeth Sweeney.

Most people are distrustful of others who present themselves as one thing, then turn out to be another. I find it more useful to let them make their presumptions, then follow their preconceived notions.