50 Quotes by Matthew Reilly

There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

Jack quickly set about releasing Pooh Bear from his cage. Once he was free and standing on solid ground, Pooh gazed at Jack in horror. 'By Allah, Jack, you look like shit.'Bloody and filthy and weary beyond all human endurance, Jack smiled a crooked smile. 'Yeah...'Then he fainted into Pooh Bear's arms.

Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.

The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky.“The empire is striking back,” Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ.

If dragons were real, then in all likelihood they were not graceful, high-chested, noble creatures; rather they would have been dirty, ugly, reptilian and mean.

Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.