Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearsonis an author of suspense and thriller novels for adults, and adventure books for children. Some of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 March 1953
CityGlen Cove, NY
CountryUnited States of America
running should persons
I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.
running faster okay
Okay, so let's run faster.
running jobs writing
Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?
powerful most-powerful walt
Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.
girl big-girl bigs
I'm a big girl, Finn.
lightning
I... do... not... do... lightning.
dream believe reality
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.
mother glasses choices
When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.
heart love-is ceremony
True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.
important doing-right
Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....
boys thinking years
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.
thinking two voice
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
book firsts serious
I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.
technology half use
Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.