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.

Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.