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People want you to be ordinary.
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Ordinary
People
Want
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Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.
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Edges
Los Angeles
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Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.
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Focus
Key To Success
Keys
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If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.
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Astronaut
Good Enough
Vision
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L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.
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Dream
Levels
Magic
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Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.
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Dog
Giving
Dogs
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When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.
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Dog
Roles
Dogs
Fulfill
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I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.
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Heart
Moving
Writing
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I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.
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Book
Facts
Writing
Readers
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The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.
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Dog
Smell
World
Around
Dogs
Doorway
Primary
Sense
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Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.
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Arms
Cat
Feet
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A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.
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Dog
Eye
Heart
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I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
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Something New
Strive
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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.
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Hats
Police
Thinking
Family Police Me
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It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.
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Forget
Sound
Tough
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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.
Robert Crais / Author
Boards
Cards
Foam
Ideas
Notes
Wall
White
Punch
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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.
Robert Crais / Author
Funny
Dry
Enjoy
People
Reactions
Serious
Thinking
I Am People Sometimes
Funny I Am People
Often
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Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.
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Food
Cooking
Light
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She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.
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Blessed
Flip
Use
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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.
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Book
Flash
Middle
Sometimes
Books
Somewhere
Beginning
Simply
Images
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My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.
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Cleaning
Hollywood
Louisiana
Prepared
Ah
First Job
Summers
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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.
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Animal
Beings
Bond
Human Being
Suspect
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There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.
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Hollywood
Insanity
Los Angeles
Miles
Angeles
Los
Observatory
Planet
Sign
Square
Square Miles
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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.
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Sister
Crime
Crime Fiction
Digging
Little Sister
Night
Rabbits
Bookstore
Hole
Rabbit
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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.
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Childhood
Drama
Past
Rise Above
Stories
Stuff
Above
Rise
Anchored
Childhoods
Deal
Great Stories
Slaves
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Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.
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Angel
Get Away
Stalking
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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.
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Decided
Finally
Realized
Reject
Techniques
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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.
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Fall
Horrible
Maggie
Weakness
Scott
Suspect
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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.
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Dog
People
Special
Thinking
Wonderful
American Families
Dogs
Families
Realize
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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.
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Afghanistan
Confrontation
Iraq
Police
Symptoms
Dogs
Exhibit
Suffer
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The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.
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Loyalty
Relationship
Men
Devotion
Dog
Military
Man
Any
Between
Close
Working
Unlike
Other
See
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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.
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Opportunity
Heal
Heroic
People
Yesterday
Work Opportunity Me
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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.
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Fiction Writing
Genre
Mr
Detective
Followed
Influenced
Parker
Robert
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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.
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Air
Air Force
Dog
Lengthy
Military
Treatment
Base
Dogs
Long Process
Suffer
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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.
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Long Time Ago
Reader
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Figured
Frankly
Stocks
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What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.
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Acid
Dog
Emotion
Smell
Sweat
Dogs
Suddenly
Sweats
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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.
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Pet
Able
Disloyal
Fabulous
People
Normally
Replace
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People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special; it reminds them of everything that they aren't.
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Men
Hate
People
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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.
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Crime
Crime Fiction
Long Time Ago
Trapped
Time Long Fun
Awful Lot
Bet
Literary
Secretly
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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.
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Dog
Dying
People
Real
Wounded
Began
Bodies
Bonded
Weeks
Cemeteries
Dogs
Encounter
Endlessly
Protecting
Refusing
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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.
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Better Life
Chasing
Life Me Better
Be True
Proved
Something Else
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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.
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Adversity
Character
Desire
Heroic
Interesting
Our Lives
Perfect
Rise Above
Struggle
Above
Rise
Almost
Background
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Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.
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Wise
Children
Thinking
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Some of us find our way with a single light to guide us; others lose themselves even when the star field is as sharp as a neon ceiling. Ethics may not be situational, but feelings are. We learn to adjust, and, over time, the stars we use to guide ourselves come to reside within rather than without.
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Feelings
Light
Stars
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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.
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Burden
Enjoyable
Exploring
Geography
Los Angeles
Okay
Traffic
Writing Process
Love Me Process
Angeles
Los
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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.
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Real Life
Life Death Work
Desires
Fears
Life Work Death
Frustrations
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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.
Robert Crais / Author
Relationship
Animal
Dog
Humans
Military
Our Lives
Share
Love Hope I Am
Writer
All Our Lives
Animals
Commercial
Dogs
Entertain
Entertain People
Foremost
Important Role
Learned
Least
Role
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Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.
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Time Thinking Me
Time Thinking Always
Elvis
Joe
Literally
Slow
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