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" People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. "

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" 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. "

" I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser. "

" I'm a wicked ping-pong player. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes. "

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" People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. "

" As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. 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. "

" I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. "

" But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. "

" 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. "

" Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year. "