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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— David Baldacci

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

— David Baldacci

“It was officially known as Kwan-li-so Number 18. That meant Penal Labor Colony in Korean. It was a concentration camp. It was…

— David Baldacci

“It was like Julie had said. You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited…

— David Baldacci

“Maybe I shot the sheriff and the deputy.”

— David Baldacci

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and…

— David Baldacci

“That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune.”

— David Baldacci

“I don’t believe in ghosts or magic.” “I don’t either, Mary. But I do know one thing.” “What’s that?” “That this guy…

— David Baldacci

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train…

— David Baldacci

“National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph…

— David Baldacci

“I’m not sure the dead are really concerned with that. And”

— David Baldacci