David Baldacci (born August 5, 1960) is a bestselling American novelist.
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.
Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.
That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.
I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.
The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.
Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book. ' And it never does.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit. ’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner
Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.
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 is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.
It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.
I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.
It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.
You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.
Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.
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 the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.