Chris Pavone

Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?

— Chris Pavone

“Grudges," she said, "are timeless.”

— Chris Pavone

I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.

— Chris Pavone

“Another of her husband’s silent lies.”

— Chris Pavone

“You know what this means?" Everyone does, but nobody answers.”

— Chris Pavone

But if you move fast, you can have your freedom.

— Chris Pavone

“We all see ourselves as the center of everything.”

— Chris Pavone

“It didn’t need to be light to be day.”

— Chris Pavone

Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake in a manuscript.

— Chris Pavone

I give tremendous weight to my positive reviews and none whatsoever to my negative ones.

— Chris Pavone

“Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work,…

— Chris Pavone

“She was picking a fight because it was Thanksgiving, and she was not thankful.”

— Chris Pavone

“She was not in a position to complain about this life, not yet. Probably not ever.”

— Chris Pavone

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

— Chris Pavone

“He laughed again, red-faced and moist-looking, at another unfunny comment. He was either drunk or an idiot. Possibly both.”

— Chris Pavone

“There’s an awful lot of beauty in Europe, but there’s also no shortage of ugly.”

— Chris Pavone

“As they’d agreed the night before on their cold balcony, scripting out this dialog, there would be three large lies in this…

— Chris Pavone

“It hasn't taken long to find herself thinking that people are watching. And that they always have been, all the time. It…

— Chris Pavone

Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in…

— Chris Pavone

“The second impediment was that she didn't want to acknowledge that part of her impetus to Internet stalking was a long habit…

— Chris Pavone

“She needed friends, and a life, and this is how you acquired those things: by talking to strangers. Everyone was a stranger,…

— Chris Pavone

I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought…

— Chris Pavone

“Once you see some things, you can never forget them. If you don't want to have to see them for the rest…

— Chris Pavone

At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel…

— Chris Pavone

“This is the expat life: you never know when someone you see every day is going to disappear forever, instantly transmogrifying into…

— Chris Pavone

“She glances at each of her three companions, at the protective veneers they’re all wearing, trying to mask the different lies they’ve…

— Chris Pavone

“You go about your business, as far away from these lines as possible, pretending they're not there. So when you eventually find…

— Chris Pavone

“But all people have secrets. Part of being human is having secrets, and being curious about other people's secrets. Dirty fetishes and…

— Chris Pavone

I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple…

— Chris Pavone

“This had been part of her training, part of her career, part of herself: whatever was going on, live like a normal…

— Chris Pavone

“But there’s this giant deception at the foundation of their relationship, their happiness. This impure motive. There was that small mistake that…

— Chris Pavone

Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day,…

— Chris Pavone

“She didn’t want to give the murder-pornography frame by frame. Didn’t want to recite her route across Manhattan, the length of the…

— Chris Pavone

“Royalty. Very different from merely rich.”

— Chris Pavone

'The Expats' would not exist without e-books.

— Chris Pavone

“So tell me how you think this ends.”

— Chris Pavone

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

— Chris Pavone

“That was the secret to maintaining lies: not trying to hide them.”

— Chris Pavone

“Things always end more suddenly than expected.”

— Chris Pavone

“She loved him so much. Even when she hated him.”

— Chris Pavone