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• I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty…
• I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
• I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The…
• Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road,…
• My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and…
• As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
• As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about…
• Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
• Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
• I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
• I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel…
• I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

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