Steve Berry Quotes

• A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

  Steve Berry

  Educational, Effort, Legacy

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• Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

  Steve Berry

  Heart, Thinking, Follow Your Heart

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.2655, Ballantine Books

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• If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

  Steve Berry

  Friendship, Music, Bridges

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1878, Ballantine Books

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• If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

  Steve Berry

  Pain, Want, Whole Life

  Steve Berry (2007). “The Venetian Betrayal: A Novel”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

  Steve Berry

  Champion, Models

  "Why Preserving History Matters" by Steve Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

  Steve Berry

  Succeed, Circumstances

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1754, Ballantine Books

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• Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

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  Believe, Bullshit

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• I detest those who deceive me.

  Steve Berry

  Deceiving, Detest

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.72, Ballantine Books

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• The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

  Steve Berry

  Fear, People

  Steve Berry (2004). “The Romanov Prophecy”, p.215, Ballantine Books

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• Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

  Steve Berry

  Moving Forward, Past, Study

  Steve Berry (2010). “The Emperor's Tomb (with bonus short story The Balkan Escape): A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

  Steve Berry

  Writing, Adventure, Secret

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• The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

  Steve Berry

  Men, Suffering, Gone

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.816, Ballantine Books

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• Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

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  Decision, Everyday, World

  "Why Preserving History Matters" by Steve Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

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  Past, Way, Remember

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1245, Ballantine Books

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• Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

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  Writing, Voice, Majority

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• He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

  Steve Berry

  Headstone, Gravestone, Ends

  Steve Berry (2004). “The Romanov Prophecy”, p.279, Ballantine Books

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• But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

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  Hero, Fool

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1016, Ballantine Books

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• I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

  Steve Berry

  Morning, Writing, Law

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• Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

  Steve Berry

  Cost, Trouble, Ifs

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.820, Ballantine Books

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• I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.

  Steve Berry

  Sorry, Memories, Night

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• When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

  Steve Berry

  Country, Past, World

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• I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

  Steve Berry

  Accurate, Knows

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• I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one Im most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

  Steve Berry

  Children, Book, Years

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