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 Big Copy Share Image
Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly… — Chris Pavone More Copy Share Image
“Each of those photos proves a different thing. All those things add up to the truth.” — Chris Pavone Truth Copy Share Image
“She stared at this first bit of positive proof, the entrance to the rabbit hole from which she might never reemerge.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“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 Business Copy Share Image
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2. — Chris Pavone Book Copy Share Image
“This was globalization: everyone everywhere was interchangeable. You could be anyone anywhere to do anything.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“She knows that one of the most dangerous, self-destructive indulgences is to go around proving how smart you are. It’s the type… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“It hadn't taken very long to come clean, after so many years of so many lies. It was surprising how undifferent she… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job… — Chris Pavone Beach Copy Share Image
Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake in a manuscript. — Chris Pavone Close Copy Share Image
I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters. — Chris Pavone Around Copy Share Image
“She was not in a position to complain about this life, not yet. Probably not ever.” — Chris Pavone Life Copy Share Image
What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by… — Chris Pavone Famous Copy Share Image
Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the… — Chris Pavone Being Copy Share Image
“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 Sightseeing Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues. — Chris Pavone Colleagues Copy Share Image
“What she did know, unfortunately, was that she had to reconsider everything she'd ever willed herself to believe about her husband.” — Chris Pavone Marriage Copy Share Image
A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important… — Chris Pavone Book Copy Share Image
“For the first time in memory, the silence between them wasn’t filled with layers upon layers of lies.” — Chris Pavone First time Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“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 First place Copy Share Image
“She was seduced by the romance of it; she was energized by the possibilities.” — Chris Pavone Love Copy Share Image
