I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job. — Chris Pavone Being Copy Share Image
“So my sister, she slipped through the cracks of the disaster of our family. She became her own disaster.” — Chris Pavone Family Copy Share Image
“On the semi-frozen river below, a duck quacked insistently, sounding like a grumpy old man agruing with a cashier.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“The embarrassment that you weren't independent, your decisions not your own to make.” — Chris Pavone Embarrassment Copy Share Image
I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters. — Chris Pavone 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
“Even if they'd known that an attack had just been struck by one of their parents, they'd also have known that it… — Chris Pavone 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
“She understood that he had to work, and he had to travel. But what he didn't have to do was be absent… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted… — Chris Pavone Books Copy Share Image
“There was a guy with extra millions in the bank. And he spent all his free time, all his energy, spending his… — Chris Pavone Business Copy Share Image
“You're going to make a lot of money? In Luxembourg?" "Yes." "How?" "They have a shortage of great-looking men. So they're going… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I'd sometimes go to Paris by myself - it was an easy two-hour train ride - to get a break from the… — Chris Pavone Big city Copy Share Image
“This is how it happens: you spend your life reading, reading, and reading more, waiting, waiting, and waiting for something to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“People will think we're having an affair," Kate said. She took a seat next to Bill on the cold slats of treated… — Chris Pavone Affair Copy Share Image
“Because she'd once made a horrible decision that would haunt her forever, and because the one person in the world she'd trusted… — Chris Pavone Lying Copy Share Image
“This had been part of her training, part of her career, part of herself: whatever was going on, live like a normal… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple… — Chris Pavone Attention Copy Share Image
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random… — Chris Pavone Books 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Books Copy Share Image
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything… — Chris Pavone Career Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day,… — Chris Pavone Day Copy Share Image
“A waiter visited to find out if everything was okay. A preposterous question.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets. — Chris Pavone Home Copy Share Image
“But quitting didn't change what she'd already done. The piece of her past that she'd never be able to outrun.” — Chris Pavone Change Copy Share Image
“It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But… — Chris Pavone 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 Heart Copy Share Image
“After all, she herself had done the very worst thing imaginable. And she was a good person. Wasn’t she?” — Chris Pavone Good person Copy Share Image
“This he thinks is the secret to New York City’s vast productivity: everyone works all the time to avoid facing their loneliness.” — Chris Pavone Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Whatever her husband had done, it couldn't be as bad as what she herself had done.” — Chris Pavone Heart Copy Share Image
“For the first time in memory, the silence between them wasn’t filled with layers upon layers of lies.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid.” — Chris Pavone Men Copy Share Image
“Because when people are transferring millions of dollars, they don’t simply hit the Send button on their computer.” — Chris Pavone Computers Copy Share Image
“She hoped that a day would come when she wouldn’t be suspicious of everyone who walked by.” — Chris Pavone Heart Copy Share Image
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 Beginning Copy Share Image
