Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm an outdoors kind of guy. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture. "

" 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. "

" There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting. "

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

" When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird. "

" I'm somewhat depressive. "

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

" It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works. "

" 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 once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans. "

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

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

" Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things. "

" I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues. "

Law Enforcement