When you see someone, all you see is what they let you see.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

Some of us find our way with a single light to guide us; others lose themselves even when the star field is as sharp…

— Robert Crais

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own…

— Robert Crais

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

— Robert Crais

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet…

— Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get…

— Robert Crais

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some…

— Robert Crais

I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one…

— Robert Crais

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

“The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for…

— Robert Crais

Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.

— Robert Crais

People want you to be ordinary.

— Robert Crais

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash…

— Robert Crais

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

— Robert Crais

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I…

— Robert Crais