Writer Quotes by David Baldacci

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

— David Baldacci

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why…

— David Baldacci

“That’s what’s called a ‘valley fill.’ What they fill it with the coal companies call ‘overburden.’ That’s basically everything they tore off the land:…

— David Baldacci

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

— David Baldacci

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…

— David Baldacci

“You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a writer.”

— David Baldacci

“That’s good to hear, Billy. Kids have enough shit to deal with without somebody who is supposed to love them beating the crap out…

— David Baldacci

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

— David Baldacci

I'm ever curious about the world.

— David Baldacci

“There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days…

— David Baldacci

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

— David Baldacci

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

— David Baldacci

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

— David Baldacci

“He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And”

— David Baldacci

“two unconscious, bleeding men and then over at the girl behind the bar. She was staring at him openmouthed, the glass-rag and beer mug…

— David Baldacci