Quotes by Alistair Maclean

About Alistair Maclean:

Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His works include The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare – all three were made into popular films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart.
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Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a...

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She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

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There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a br...

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Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had n...

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This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.

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I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

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I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

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As the rain hides the stars, as the autumn mist hides the hills, as the clouds veil the blue of the sky, so the dark happenings of my lot hide the shining of Your face from me. Yet, if I may hold Your hand in the darkness, it is enough. Since I know ...

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Author Bio

  • NameAlistair Maclean
  • DescriptionScottish novelist
  • AliasesAlistair Stuart MacLean
  • BornApril 21, 1922
  • DiedFebruary 2, 1987
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Teacher; Screenwriter