Best-selling author David Baldacci, 63, has penned another thriller in his popular 6:20 Man (a.k.a.
Travis Devine) series.
Youve written more than 60 books.
Do you still enjoy the process, and has it gotten any easier?
I enjoy it just as much as Ive always enjoyed it, which is a good sign.
I dont think it gets easier.
I think it gets harder.
You know the potential thats there with each book, and so you work a little bit harder.
You just jump in the boat and see what happens.
… Ive always found that fear is a great antidote to complacency.
Where do you get the inspiration for your stories?
Ive always been very curious about the world.
I like to see what makes people tick, what makes the world tick.
I observe, I listen, and I think about things.
And I write about things that fascinate me, that make me curious.
I write books to answer questions that I have in real life about certain things.
I make a run at answer them in a fictional sense.
So thats really where the stories come from its just that curiosity thats driven me my entire life.
What was the first book you ever read and loved?
It wasThe Magic Squirrel.Its a Russian parable.
I read it when I was like 6.
And that was the first moment where I actually ached painfully ached when I was away from a book.
All I wanted to do was get back to it, keep reading.
And it led to me becoming a writer sometime later.
I pick it up every now and then because Im a very nostalgic person.
It just brings back memories, good memories.
