David Baldacci
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Biography
David Baldacci is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers.
"Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?"
"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."
"Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life."
"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."
"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."
"Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work"
"Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the things we say we want in a free and open society. So keep ‘em, fund ‘em, embrace and cherish ‘em."
"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."