Robert Crais Quotes

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.

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.

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.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

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.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

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.

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.

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.

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

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.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.

Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.

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.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

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.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

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.

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.

People want you to be ordinary.

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.

Solitude was a spell that freed her.

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.