If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut. Robert Crais More Quotes by Robert Crais More Quotes From Robert Crais People want you to be ordinary. Robert Crais want ordinary people Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet. Robert Crais arms cat feet 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. Robert Crais tough sound forget Efficiency and focus are the keys to success. Robert Crais key-to-success focus keys 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. Robert Crais stalking get-away angel 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. Robert Crais military dog air 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. Robert Crais able pet people 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. Robert Crais little-sister rabbits night I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. Robert Crais writing book facts I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart. Robert Crais heart writing moving 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. Robert Crais smell sweat dog 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. Robert Crais middle sometimes book 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. Robert Crais hats police thinking 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. Robert Crais bond dog animal way 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. Robert Crais amazing best great food 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. Robert Crais dogs suffer back police 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. Robert Crais just weakness love fall 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. Robert Crais better me life people I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again. Robert Crais new something want book 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. Robert Crais day me time long
