31 Quotes by F. Paul Wilson

No one you’d really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

Milo remembered an old saying his father used to quote to him when he was a boy: Beware the wrath of a patient man.

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I’ll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They’re invariably bright!

Oh, how this sucked. This sucked so thoroughly. It was hard to even quantify the level of suck involved here.

I have never written a book that I wouldn’t want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps – romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

I always say that Religion and Politics are just clever ways to make un-content people content with their un-contentedness.

If I don’t already know a song’s chord progression, I’ll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don’t need silence – I can write just about anywhere – but music is a major distraction.