Steve Berry Quotations

I believe that suit has not been dismissed. These are decided on a case-by-case basis.

If a party is unresponsive, we have no other means to conduct an engineering study. It's not our preference. We'd ask people to understand we have to do these studies.

I think our size inside helped us. We tried to force the ball inside, then had some kick-outs.

We feel really bad about this. This is really hard on us. The fallout? It accumulates.

After a conversation with the Bureau of Reclamation (which is performing the environmental study), we learned we did not need access but could use the best available data on the site.

Dan Brown gave guys like me a chance.

It's sobering. Living in the Midwest, you don't feel nearly as vulnerable, but it's these times when we probably feel the most vulnerable.

It's in everyone's best interest that these studies are allowed to take place.

Once they (the West players) were more familiar with each other, they ran with the ball better. It opened up for us.

Children can be taught a little easier (when they are younger) than when they get in high school or junior high. Your focus at that point is a lot different.

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

I detest those who deceive me...

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one Im most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.