VINCE FLYNN

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I just look at what's going on in the world.

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.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

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

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

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.

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for 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.

It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

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)

Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

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

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

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.