James M.

“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.”
― Robert Harris, The Ghost

“I think it was Stephen King who said that the sum of all human fear is just a door left slightly ajar.”
― Hanna Jameson, The Last

“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling