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“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
-- David Baldacci

#Peace #Nice #Book
“But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.”
-- David Baldacci

#Writing #Expectations #Able
“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”
-- David Baldacci

#Another Chance #Might #Today
“It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.”
-- David Baldacci

#Country #Journey #America
“It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.”
-- David Baldacci

#Breathing #Alive #Want
“I'm ever curious about the world.”
-- David Baldacci

#World #Curious
“I'm a wicked ping-pong player.”
-- David Baldacci

#Player #Wicked #Ping Pong
“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.”
-- David Baldacci

#People #President #Flip
“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.”
-- David Baldacci

#Hard Work #Character #Challenges
“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.”
-- David Baldacci

#Believe #People #Justice
“But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.”
-- David Baldacci

#Hero #Protagonists
“The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.”
-- David Baldacci

#Encouragement #Medicine #Miracle
“As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.”
-- David Baldacci

#Citizens #Lawyer #Injustice
“I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.”
-- David Baldacci

#Children #Writing #Lap
“Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!”
-- David Baldacci

#Passion #Giving #Treasure
“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.”
-- David Baldacci

#Writing #Imagination #World
“I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.”
-- David Baldacci

#Pages #Lasers #Lasts
“I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.”
-- David Baldacci

#Tired #People
“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.”
-- David Baldacci

#Real #Civilization #Survival
“A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?”
-- David Baldacci

#Ambition #Men #Fleeting
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.”
-- David Baldacci

#Long #Corruption #Humans
“Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.”
-- David Baldacci

#Truth #Inspire #Half
“Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.”
-- David Baldacci

#Life #Essence #Long
“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.”
-- David Baldacci

#Humanity #Principles #Process
“Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.”
-- David Baldacci

#Facts #Assumption #Dangerous
“It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.”
-- David Baldacci

#Believe #Passion #Thinking
“It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.”
-- David Baldacci

#Destination
“Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.”
-- David Baldacci

#Two #People #Care
“Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!”
-- David Baldacci

#Beach #Reading #People
“In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.”
-- David Baldacci

#Guy #Thrillers #Gray Area

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