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Everybody counts or nobody counts
I was fired as an actor on 'Bosch.'
Artists are supposed to stay hungry.
Can't complain because nobody listens.
You have to write about what scares you.
I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
I want people to think I'm a creative genius.
I can't say I'm an expert on public transport.
The characters I write about are very internal.
There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep.
We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.
I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.
I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.
Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.'
Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me.
As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.
I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.
With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.
There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction.
All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away.
I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books.
The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best.
My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.
The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.
That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!
I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.
I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'
I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.
In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.
One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.
People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.