Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write a whole story, a whole book. A writer has to be able to look at… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
“Back when I was a callow youth, if I had known how miserable the hours would be working for the CIA, I would have… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
“I’ve talked to Molina three times today, and he wants me to pull the rabbit out of the hat now”.” — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
