Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Robert Crais
" At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back. "
Process
Road
Air
" Dogs give us something just as we give something to them. "
Something
Us
Them
" Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are. "
People
Think
American
" Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories. "
Great
Past
Rise
" First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives. "
Relationship
Love
I Am
" I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday. "
Better
Me
People
" I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly. "
Dying
Sometimes
You
" I don't think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I'm frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy. "
Me
Think
Time
" If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut. "
Vision
Good
Astronaut
" I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal. "
Keep Going
Lost
Loved
" I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life. "
Father
Death
Life
" I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes. "
Punch
Story
White
" I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. 'Suspect' started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie so much, and I love Maggie and Scott and what they have going. "
Love
Weakness
Fall
" I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction. "
Time
You
Fun
" I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love the way it looks. I love the geography. I love the diversity. "
Writing
Diversity
Love
" I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. "
Love
Book
Fact
" I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again. "
New
Book
Strive
" I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him. "
Writing
Today
Think
" I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally I realized I should go back to all the techniques I'd learned. "
Go
Everything
Books
" I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction. "
Right
Sister
Crime
" I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart. "
Write
Me
Move
" L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream. "
See
Dream
Me
" My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle. "
Book
Sometimes
Me
" My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer. "
Police
Think
Me
" My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic. "
Struggle
Adversity
Nature
" My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood. "
Cleaning
Me
Hollywood
" No other animal bonds to a human being the way a dog does. And I suspect there is no other animal to which human beings can bond the way we can bond to a dog. "
Other
Animal
Human
" People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true. "
Place
Dream
Thought
" Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD. "
Dogs
Back
Involved
" Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny. "
I Am
Funny
Enjoy
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark