Quotes by Matthew Reilly - Page 1

I'm very good at plot.
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Plot
Good Very
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There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.
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Aspiring Writers
Periods
Writing
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To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.
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Encouragement
Knows
Never Underestimate
Underestimate
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There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.
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Space
Defeat
Empty
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I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.
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Traveler
Brilliantly
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I imagine I'm a very unusual guy to date. You know, I've got toys on the shelves, and I've got the cars.
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Shelves
Unusual
Date
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Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.
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Danger
Fantasy
Shackles
Stakes
World Me New
New Level
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I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great
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Men
Mad
Unlimited
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I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.
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Over The Top
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One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.
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Book
Careers
Writing
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My first book, 'Contest,' had a guy fighting aliens in the New York Public Library. The second book, 'Ice Station,' and 'Temple' were present-day military thrillers.
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Ice
Present Day
Public Library
Alien
Contest
Temple
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What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.
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Audience
Authors
Thinks
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Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?
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Caught
Fascinated
Child
Animals
Escaped
Happen
Wondered
Zoo
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I read 'The Hobbit' only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through 'The Hobbit,' but it wasn't something that I discovered until later in life.
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Hobbit
Teenagers
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I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
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Ark
Predator
Raiders
Action Movies
Alien
Die Hard
Dreamed
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In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.
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Ancient
Break
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
Hero
Seven
Team
West
Somebody
Bay
Bad People Way
Jack
Maybe
Wonders
Preach
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A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.
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Loyalty
Fighting
Memories
True Friend
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When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'
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Movie
Action
Book
Jurassic Park
Myself People Doing
Apart
Read
Michael
Guys
Jurassic
Mine
Park
Possibly
Tom
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I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.
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Antarctica
Documentaries
New York State
Peru
Great World Me
Alien
Increasingly
Manner
Pyramid
Widely
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