Vince Flynn Quotes

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

There’s a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It’s going to be a lot tougher than you think.

No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****.I feel like s****

When I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was offered to support starving artists. I can’t tell you how much this deeply offended me. I told her in very clear language that I thought it was ridiculous to think that other Americans ought to pay for me to chase my dream. Anybody who understands pride and self-determination gets this. So I bartended at night, I wrote during the day, and I paid for my own damn insurance. I didn’t expect anybody else to pick it up for me.

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

If you’re not busy living, you’re dying.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there’s always – always somebody who’s got it way, way worse.

It’s this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated…deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business–the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.