About David Baldacci: David Baldacci is a bestselling American novelist.
It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.
Wait a minute. Wait just a hairball kakking minute.
If he didn't want to be mauled by a sex-starved woman who hadn't gotten any skin in months, he'd better keep his hands to himself.
A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin. And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, t...
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.
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.
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.
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.
People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.
I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.
I'm a wicked ping-pong player.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.
Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
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...
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.
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.
I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.
If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements.
