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" A good day to me is writing from 6 A.M. 'til noon with a break to take my daughter to school. After lunch, if I still feel the momentum, I'll hit it again. "
Good Day
School
Good
" All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away. "
Walk
Down
Fun
" A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head. "
City
Head
Like
" A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs. "
Center
Newspaper
Community
" Artists are supposed to stay hungry. "
Artists
Hungry
Supposed
" As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the way I do with Harry Bosch. "
Way
Wrote
Character
" As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. "
Job
Capture
Because
" As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it. "
Wherever
Writer
You
" As far as characters in fiction that I really admire - it's pretty strong to say you would wish that you had created another character - but I'll throw out Will Graham, the protagonist in 'Red Dragon,' a book I've read several times. "
You
Book
Character
" As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out. "
Everything
Bank
Weekend
" Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place. "
Place
Always
You
" Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years. "
Still
Deep
Heart
" Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. "
Eight
Car
Me
" Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.' "
I Think
Childhood
Think
" I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the fuel - it's inspiring - so I try to keep the tank full. What happens most of the time is I binge read. I will put aside a day or two to do nothing but read. "
Nothing
Try
Time
" I can't say I'm an expert on public transport. "
Transport
Public
Expert
" I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. "
Deliberately
Age
Books
" I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something genetic there. Maybe just a need to tell stories. "
Think
Storytelling
Tradition
" I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect. "
Got
Essence
Lawyer
" I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life. "
Life
Live
Success
" I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to. "
Law Enforcement
Job
Me
" I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way. "
Write
Books
Build
" I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book. "
Will
Think
Never
" I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch. "
Few
He
Inner
" I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. "
Feel
Trying
World
" I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both. "
You
Love
Small
" I get into this unfortunate thing when I'm touring for my books. I was in Spain, and the media asked me, 'Who's your favorite Spanish mystery writer?' I'm totally flat-footed. I feel that I'm under-read when it comes to foreign writers. "
Spain
Books
Media
" I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the day before, and that gives some momentum for the day. "
Start
Dark
Day
" I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published. "
First
Echo
Lucky
" I hate people thinking their city is unique, but there is a certain aura about Los Angeles; it's not necessarily a beautiful thing, but it's part of Harry Bosch. "
City
People
Hate
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