Don Pendleton Quotes

#1. I can only draw what I see.

Claude Monet

#2. For what blessing may a man hope for but
An immortality in
The loving vigilance of death.

Robert Penn Warren

#3. It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.

Paul Merton

#4. Yes, sometimes we must lose something ... someone ... before we realize its worth.

Julie Klassen

#5. Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.

Alcee Hastings

#6. Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

Don Pendleton

#7. I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

Victoria Pendleton

#8. It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.

Arthur Miller

#9. Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of life's pleasures. This is the message from Mack Bolan, book after book, and it is the only thing dignifying this type of fiction.

Don Pendleton

#10. Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

Don Pendleton

#11. You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

Michael Pollan

#12. I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Phil Esposito

#13. Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Christy Turlington

#14. I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

Criss Jami

#15. In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None, however, have provided the pleasure of touching so many people from so many lands as have the Executioners.

Don Pendleton

#16. I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.

Victoria Pendleton

#17. I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

Michel Foucault

#18. Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

Don Pendleton

#19. Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.

Don Pendleton

#20. Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

Don Pendleton

#21. You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

Anthony Horowitz

#22. When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.

Don Pendleton