Quotes from David Baldacci

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

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

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.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

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

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

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

It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, 'howdy-howdy, God,' and we jaw fer a bit.' - Jimmy 'Diamond' Skinner

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

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.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

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

The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy

We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it.

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

He looked around at the others....They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed the weather. Maybe that's how the world was now....Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, 'howdy-howdy, God,' and we jaw fer a bit.' - Jimmy 'Diamond' Skinner

Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.