Jeff Abbott Quotes

#1. I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

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#2. An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville's THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.

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#3. This book is like an engineering masterpiece, can't be bad ! No matter what it will always be the greatest of all.

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#4. You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book.

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#5. I want the reader to be in the shoes of everyday people who are facing incredible dangers and wonder if they would make the same choices.

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#6. I don't hate you. I don't know that I understand you yet. I may never. But I will try. But I'm not sure what my next step is.

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#7. The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

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#8. I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

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#9. I travel, a lot, to research the locales for the books. I have professional contacts that I can ask questions of or show them scenes to vet.

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#10. Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

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#11. Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

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#12. I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

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#13. No she wouldn't," Miles said. "An ass is an ass

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#14. If it's broken, it can be fixed.

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#15. It's your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn't. Home is death.

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#16. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.
And he shot the concierge once between astonished eyes.

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#17. Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

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#18. I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

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#19. There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

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