David Baldacci
David Baldacci
David Baldacci is a bestselling American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 August 1960
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
book kids rocks
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.
character hard-work challenges
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.
people president flip
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.
tired people im-tired
I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.
life essence long
Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.
humanity principles process
Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.
destination
It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
two people want
Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.
long corruption humans
Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
ambition men fleeting
A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?
guy thrillers gray-area
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.
military writing soldier
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.
cotton may hard
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.
lost
Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.