David Baldacci

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

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

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.