American novelist (1960- )
My country is filled with the metal carcasses of Soviet tanks. The farmers just plow around them.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Camel Club
There are many kinds of love, and people have the capacity to love many different people.
DAVID BALDACCI
One Summer
Even though we weren't old, we were old with all we carried inside.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Finisher
Them two people lost each other, but they's still in love. Now, people die, but love don't never die. Made the well magic. Anybody done got a wish, they come here, wish for it, and it'll happen. Ever time. Rain or shine.
DAVID BALDACCI
Wish You Well
American football was thick in the air; war on the gridiron they called it. Well, at least those who had never been in the real thing called it that.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Camel Club
I want people to realize wars could be fought in many different types of battlefields whether the desert in Iraq or the urban streets of London or America. These are two very different kinds of battlefields. Because many citizens have no direct engagement with the soldiers and their families they think they could not be harmed. We are never really safe wherever we are. It is an important cliché, ‘see something, say something.’ People should not be listening to their ear buds or staring at their phones oblivious to everyone around them.
DAVID BALDACCI
interview, Crime Spree Magazine, November 14, 2017
Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Innocent
You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Forgotten
I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.
DAVID BALDACCI
Split Second
Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Christmas Train
Things might look bad now, but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Christmas Train
If you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Finisher
She had known young men who'd trained with her in Pakistan that kept what they called journals of sacrifice, their sacrifice. The West, she knew, called them suicide diaries. She had read accounts in the papers of these diaries being found after the young men had died for Islam. Djamila had thought about what the last day of her life would look like. In her head she ran through what she would be thinking when the time came, how she would react. She had many questions and some doubts that troubled her. Would she be brave? She had imagined herself being noble and stoic, but was that realistic? Would she instantly be transported to paradise? Would anyone mourn her? And yet this also made her feel guilty, for her love of God should be enough; as it was for all Muslims.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Camel Club
Who knows what beats deeply within the hearts of people?
DAVID BALDACCI
Split Second
Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Winner
I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.
DAVID BALDACCI
Split Second
I suppose it may be God's way of telling us to love people while they're here, because tomorrow they may be gone. I guess that's a pretty sorry answer, but I'm afraid it's the only one I've got.
DAVID BALDACCI
Wish You Well
They are finding females have better motor skills then men. This is a skill very much needed for snipers. They are also able to lie in one position for many hours a day. I have gone to military bases and fired the rifles so I have an idea what it requires. I put the descriptions in the book. Through Jessica people can understand it is not just falling on the ground, looking through a scope, and firing the rifle. It is actual a science that involves a lot of math and physics.
DAVID BALDACCI
interview, Crime Spree Magazine, November 14, 2017
If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Christmas Train
The knowledge that at any moment you would be expected to and in fact would sacrifice your life for that of another man, for the benefit of the common good, made for a supremely noble act in a world more and more devoid of anything remotely virtuous.
DAVID BALDACCI
Absolute Power