44 Quotes by Richard Castle

We all try. And try as we might to control things, sometimes bad things get in and it's not our fault.

He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is to say, about him not the subject. Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.

What do you have in this car?" he asked."What do you mean, like weapons?""That would be a good start.""Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain.""A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now....

I’m trying to figure the rules. This isn’t yin and yang, it’s more like yin and yank. The past few days I’ve been going, OK, she doesn’t mix the... romance so well with the single-mindedness of the police work. So it gets me wondering, Is the solution for me to give up our working relationship? Stop my magazine research so we can-?” Nikki grabbed him into a deep kiss. Then she pulled away and said, “Will you shut up?

Ochoa pulled the door and held it open for her. Nikki pivoted around the jamb, squaring her aim up the hall. She stopped, still holding her combat stance, shook her head, and mumbled, “Mother...” ...Rook was standing halfway up the hall with Paxton snugged behind him holding the gun to his head. He looked at Nikki sheepishly and said, “So, I’m gonna guess it’s Noah.

Rejection isn’t failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It’s how you handle it that determines where you’ll end up.

There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.

We all try. And try as we might to control things, sometimes bad things get in and it’s not our fault.

People change when you’re not looking.