Nelson DeMille famous quotes

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Motivation #Journey #Maps

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Real #Humanity #Firsts

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Writing #Thinking #Machines

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Worry #Devil #Faces

Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Years #Wish #Suspense

I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There’s probably a third category—the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but I’ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they don’t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Running #Fall #Men

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Life #Real #Dresses

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,
-- Nelson DeMille

#Writing #Names #Someday

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Anxiety #Panic #Abiding

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Novelists #Exciting

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Dinner #Close Friends #Unwind

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Clueless #Cover Ups #Pensive

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Women #Degrees #Patient

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.
-- Nelson DeMille

#House #Mafia #Want

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Scary #Moments #Sanity

...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Ego #Causes #Males

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Perception

I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Guy #Definitions #Crosswords

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Country #Cutting #Evil

Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Jobs #Distance #Home

Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Husband #Knowing #Way

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Drinking #Cutting #Promise

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Writing #Firsts #World

There is no terra incognito left.
-- Nelson DeMille

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Writing #Hobbies #Made

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Real #Way #Novelists

I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Beach #Home #Gold

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Book #Long #Aristocracy

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Kings #Writing

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
-- Nelson DeMille

#America #Nuclear #Terrorism

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Economist

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Strong #Successful #Desire

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Cop

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of nuclear.
-- Nelson DeMille

#People #Scary #Nuclear

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Want #Mystery #Bother

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Life #Plan B #Plans

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Names #Want #Use

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Islamic #Rome #Cities