Stephen Coonts Quotes (6 Quotes)

When I got into it I realized that it needed Jake Grafton to give it an American center of focus that wouldn't be there without a strong American hero,

She said, 'You know they just might have read 'Under Siege' down there,' ... 'I don't want any phone calls from the State Department that you're locked in some jail cell down there.'

I think every good story deserves to be told twice,

I think there's a lesson there for all story-tellers. It's the same human themes and values from Day One. They're still exactly the same. You just play with them in different settings, change them around to entertain the audience today.

That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I've done my job.

I had already done a two-chapter subplot on the second Cuban revolution in the book 'Under Siege' in 1990,