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" I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. "

" They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly. "

" If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful. "

" There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back. "

" I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are. "

" The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee. "

" When you're writing two books a year, you really need some time off and don't want to use that down time for touring. I do like talking with readers, though; they can tell you important stuff. "

" I'm an outdoors kind of guy. "

" People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition. "

" I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together. "

" If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause. "

" Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing. "

" Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me. "

" That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. "

" You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life. "

" 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. "

" I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did. "

" These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt. "

" Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. "

" 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. "

" With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop. "

" A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous. "

" People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away. "

" Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important. "

" Most people like a little sex in their novels. "

" When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?' "

" I really do need the help of other people working with me. "

" 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. "