David Baldacci Quotes
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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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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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I'm a wicked ping-pong player.
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People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.
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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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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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I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.
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I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.
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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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Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
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But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.
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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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Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
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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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Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
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I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.
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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.
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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.