There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better,… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes messes. We… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The danger of drawing parallels is that some things are always inequalities.” — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.” — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I think you two forgot how to love each other, and that’s just like poison. Worst thing you can do is forgot how to… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
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