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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit... It gives us a little chip on our shoulder. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know? "

" 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. "

" When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A great review is great. A bad review is the worst. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like your kids, even if they look alike. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "