Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlumwas an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated between 290 million and 500 million. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 May 1927
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.
Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.
Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!
Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates
It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.
You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
Learn always but never appear to be learning.
A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.