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" I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict. "

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" The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. "

" My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many. "

" We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally. "

" I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. "

" 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. "

" The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops. "

" Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller. "

" We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing it. "

" 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. "

" By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. "

" 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. "

" You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books. "

" My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. "

" A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya. "

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" 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. "

" I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem. "

" 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. "