Best 12 quotes of David Hewson on MyQuotes

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.

Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting for one brief hour upon a stage, then heard no more. I'll weep an ocean in my heart, if the world would give me time. But not now.

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.