Brad Thor famous quotes

04-17-2025

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
-- Brad Thor

#Powerful #Writing #America
We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.
-- Brad Thor

#Country #Warrior #Night
Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.
-- Brad Thor

#Rewards #Clue #Reap
There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.
-- Brad Thor

#Justice #Social Justice #Social
... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.
-- Brad Thor

#Smile #Plans
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that
-- Brad Thor

#Book #Ideas #Use
If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
-- Brad Thor

#Glasses #Looks #Half
When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.
-- Brad Thor

#Growing Up #Feet #Names
Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.
-- Brad Thor

#Book #Reality #Thinking
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
-- Brad Thor

#Als #Opinion #Protection
I always have a different way of looking at things.
-- Brad Thor

#Different #Way
There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.
-- Brad Thor

#Spots #Whole Life
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
-- Brad Thor

#Freedom #People #Freedom Of Speech
I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal
-- Brad Thor

#Moving #Book #Character
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is
-- Brad Thor

#Writing #Thinking #Islam
You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.
-- Brad Thor

#Real #Moving #Body
...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.
-- Brad Thor

#Country #Thinking #Ideas
There arenâ€™t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? Itâ€™s our fault as voters. We donâ€™t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserveâ€”on both sides of the aisle.
-- Brad Thor

#Men #Ego #Demand
Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...
-- Brad Thor

#Razors #Madness #Incredibles
If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.
-- Brad Thor

#Winning #Quitting
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean
-- Brad Thor

#Thinking #Talking #Want
I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue
-- Brad Thor

#Writing #Issues #Important
From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.
-- Brad Thor

#Mean #Thinking #Ideas
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave
-- Brad Thor

#Believe #Mind

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