"My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters."

-- Lincoln Child

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“I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.”
“I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about 'hope' and 'change'. His name was Fidel Castro.”
“I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.”
“I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.”

Source : "Journalist kidnapped in Somalia: Reunion with mom 'felt like home'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.
“Be true to what matters most to your heart.”
“It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.”

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