David Baldacci

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

— David Baldacci

#peace #people #reading #world #reading-books

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback. ↗

— David Baldacci

#inspirational

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

— David Baldacci

#knowledge #understanding #life

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living. ↗

— David Baldacci

#truth #verification #age

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

— David Baldacci

#love

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.’ - Louisa Mae Cardinal ↗

— David Baldacci

#wish-you-well #family

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. ↗

— David Baldacci

#both #challenges #characters #drawn #hard

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. ↗

— David Baldacci

#believe #fiction #justice #least #occur

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? ↗

— David Baldacci

#discover #easily #time #truth #trying