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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.


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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.



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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?



I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.



You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.



You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.



I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.



I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.



There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.



I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.



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What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.





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It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.



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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.



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