James Rollins Quotes

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Make subtlety obvious.

Most things in life are better when you just cut to the chase.

Plain as a pike-staff.

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

Without complexity, there's no intensity.

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

Simple is the speech of truth.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

Gentleman, this is a football.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.