There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

- Matthew Reilly

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

- Matthew Reilly

There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

- Matthew Reilly

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

- Matthew Reilly

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

- Matthew Reilly

A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. …

- Matthew Reilly