Explore Quotes by David Baldacci

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

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.

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

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone.

It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

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.

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

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

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.

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

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.