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" A great review is great. A bad review is the worst. "
Bad
Review
Worst
" As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like your kids, even if they look alike. "
Film
You
Look
" As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath. "
Know
See
Think
" As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it. "
Fall
Love
Place
" As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years, I know how tough a subject it is. Mind-bending, soul-warping, heartbreaking, it challenges your intellect, your beliefs, your faith in humanity and God. "
Faith
Challenges
God
" A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. "
Money
Writer
Power
" By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others. "
Man
Evil
Suffering
" Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money. "
Money
Business
Kid
" For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger. "
Trying
Me
Attack
" If Trump was really looking for Mexicans to pay for the wall, he should put in a call to Sinaloa. They'd probably build it for him. "
Wall
Him
Looking
" I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work. "
Going
Back
Started
" I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. "
Put
Surfing
Who
" I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know? "
Kid
Brooklyn
Italy
" In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip. "
Place
See
Watch
" I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem. "
Work
Problem
Morning
" I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working. "
Need
Think
Ideas
" It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit... It gives us a little chip on our shoulder. "
Us
Looking
People
" I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were nice and gave them things until they found the chew toy. "
Joke
Lost
Used
" I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed. "
Island
Culture
Real
" I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya. "
1980s
Guide
Kenya
" I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people. "
Dog
Trying
Power
" I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer. "
City
Like
Crime
" I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict. "
Would
Things
Peaceful
" My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. "
Read
Influence
Kid
" My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many. "
Ideas
Few
Many
" Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not. "
Society
Reflection
Police
" Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it. "
New
New York
Corruption
" Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other. "
You
Horse
Me
" So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. "
Write
Thought
Should
" The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there. "
Hotel
Bridge
Island
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