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" A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with. "
Cops
Existential
Dealing
" A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it. "
Writing
Say
Process
" A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous. "
Newspaper
Were
Lot
" As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character. "
Help
You
Speech
" Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important. "
Powerful
Rise
Important
" Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are. "
Want
Stay
People
" Combat stress isn't the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq - there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness. "
Leave
Family
Home
" I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are. "
Books
Becoming
Fear
" If readers tell you that stretches of dialogue or narrative were too long, that they couldn't tell who was talking, that's something that can be fixed. "
Dialogue
Long
Talking
" If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful. "
Out
Peaceful
You
" If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause. "
Cause
Aware
You
" I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues. "
Media
Law
Law Enforcement
" I'm an outdoors kind of guy. "
Kind
Outdoors
Guy
" I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of. "
Life
Care
My Life
" I'm not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots. "
Who
Lights
People
" I'm somewhat depressive. "
Somewhat
Depressive
" I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans. "
Way
New
Canoe
" I really do need the help of other people working with me. "
Need
Other
People
" I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together. "
Together
Time
Seeing
" It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works. "
People
Language
Interesting
" I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. "
Things Happen
City
Strange
" I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views. "
More
Media
Political
" I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did. "
Myself
Did
Always
" I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture. "
Know
Newspaper
Army
" Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing. "
You
Look
Down
" Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things. "
People
Protest
Pretty
" Most people like a little sex in their novels. "
Sex
Like
Little
" Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. "
Trying
Write
Sit
" My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird. "
Used
Living
Weird
" People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition. "
Live
Place
People
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