"I believe that everything you need to know you can find in a book. People have always received life-guiding wisdom from certain types of nonfiction, often from "self-help" books . . . . But I have found that all sorts of books can carry this kind of wisdom; a random sentence in a thriller will give me an unexpected insight. (If I hadn't read , the masterful 1997 novel that introduced the world to Jack Reacher, a former military cop turned vagrant, I never would have learned this valuable piece of wisdom, which still guides me in work and life" Waiting is a skill like anything else.")"