111 Quotes by Robert Ludlum

"There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running – unless it is a woman."

"Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning."

"Never trust a leader who proclaims himself a leader before anyone else does."

"Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables – with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card."

"The philosophy of a conglomerate is to buy as far and as wide as possible and diversify its markets. It both uses and refutes the Malthusian."

"Nothing is so convincing as someone who’s a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it."

"The slightest alteration can cause dramatic changes. That’s what happened to you. The damage was physical. It’s as though blocks were rearranged, the physical structure no longer what it was."

"You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there’s a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive."

"There’ll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you’ll try."

"I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn’t really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you’re lucky, it becomes an art form. But first, it’s got to be a craft... You’ve got to have a beginning, middle and end. And I have sort of applied the theatrical principles to writing. Throw the story in the air and see what’s going to happen."