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I'm a fast driver.
'The Big Sky' is an American classic.
I was heavily into John D. MacDonald.
My favorite movies are from the '70s.
I'm a strong believer in second chances.
Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.
I can't relax. I don't have any hobbies.
I'm a very sentimental, emotional person.
I shoot occasionally, but I'm no gun expert.
My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.
I was a movie freak before I was a book lover.
I owned a '70 Camaro for many years, which I loved.
I make a good spaghetti sauce and can mix a nice drink.
Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.
There are a lot of bars and shoe stores in my early books.
Every day I'm not working or writing is a wasted day to me.
There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.
I'm more apt to shed a tear than my wife about family matters.
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.
We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.
I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time.
I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.
I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.
I live in a bigger house, but I still live in the neighbourhood I grew up in.
I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.
For many years, I did ride-alongs with patrol cops, which is any citizen's right.
I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.
I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer.
There is nothing like the rumble of a dual-piped American car with something under the hood.
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.
It's relatively easy to adopt kids if you're not trying to get kids that look exactly like you.
A lot of guys are walking around with a lot simmering beneath the surface, and sometimes it explodes.
Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'
I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.
I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.
As far as I'm concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it's poetry, man. There's beauty in it.
I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.
'True Grit' is one of the few books my sons let me read to them - and paid attention to - when they were younger.
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
I am on my bike daily, and most of the locations, warehouses and specific residences from 'The Cut' were found while I was riding.
I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.
If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.
Many fathers and sons never get to reconcile their differences or come to an understanding that fills the gap between love and expectations.