112 Quotes by Nelson DeMille

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.