Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone

“Royalty. Very different from merely rich.”

— Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone

“Grudges," she said, "are timeless.”

— Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone

“She hoped that a day would come when she wouldn’t be suspicious of everyone who walked by.”

— Chris Pavone

“Because when people are transferring millions of dollars, they don’t simply hit the Send button on their computer.”

— Chris Pavone

“Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid.”

— Chris Pavone

If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

— Chris Pavone

“This woman is American, but she speaks with no regional accent. She could be from anywhere. She could be anyone.”

— Chris Pavone

“Circumstantial evidence may not be enough to convict. But it’s almost always enough to reveal the truth. Isn’t it?”

— Chris Pavone

“Each of those photos proves a different thing. All those things add up to the truth.”

— Chris Pavone

In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of…

— Chris Pavone

“It would make a lot more sense if she had imagined this whole thing, her whole life. Now would just be now,…

— Chris Pavone

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly…

— Chris Pavone

“The dozen options on her oven’s dial included the likes of ober-unterhitze, intesivbacken, and schnellaufheizen. She loved the sound of insivbacken, so…

— Chris Pavone

In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In…

— Chris Pavone

“Dexter was too legit,” Julia continued. “His life was too verifiable, too aboveboard. He was nobody’s spy, nobody’s mole, nobody’s rat. He…

— Chris Pavone

“They were ticking off items on a to-do list that was magnet-attached to the fridge. There were nineteen items on the list.…

— 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

“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

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

— Chris Pavone

Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random…

— Chris Pavone

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important…

— Chris Pavone

I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and…

— Chris Pavone

There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into…

— 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

“Another of her husband’s silent lies.”

— Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone

“Things always end more suddenly than expected.”

— Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone

Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.

— Chris Pavone

“It's impossible to know which parts of the woman, if any, were real.”

— Chris Pavone

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

— Chris Pavone