David Baldacci Quotes

• Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appointment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it’s gone, it doesn’t comeback.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Books, Reading

• It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

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  Topics in Funny

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

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  Topics in Expectations

• But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heroes

• I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

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  Topics in Work

• I’d read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• I’m a wicked ping-pong player.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wicked

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things

• In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there’s no gray area at all.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

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

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  Topics in Democracy

• People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer ‘This can never end up in a book.’ And it never does.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book

• People who have expertise just love to share it. That’s human nature.

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  Topics in Love, Nature

• The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Cool

• Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book

• As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lawyer

• I’m ever curious about the world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Curious

• I’m scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I’m a laser.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Last

• As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

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  Topics in Justice

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

David Baldacci (22)

Birth:	5th August, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia. He is a bestselling American novelist. He received a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia, after which he practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C.. While practicing law, he turned to novel writing, taking three years to write Absolute Power. Published in 1996, it was an international best seller. He has published 29 best-selling novels for adults as well as four novels for younger readers. Baldacci's novels have been translated into over 45 languages and sold in more than 80 countries. Over 110 million copies of his books are in print worldwide.

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