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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

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Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

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I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

From David Baldacci

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

From David Baldacci

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

From David Baldacci

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

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Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

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But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

From David Baldacci

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

From David Baldacci

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

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David Baldacci

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