Robert Crais Quotes

Solitude was a spell that freed her.

Bishop had the muscle tone of Jell-O. Rossi

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

Truly said, We've talked to people, Mr. Cole. You've an outstanding reputation for diligence, and your integrity is above reproach.

Being a friend is hard." "If it was easy, anyone could do it." "I love smart women." "Smart women love you." "I'd better go." "Call me later.

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

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.

'Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that. In Pinocchio.

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Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

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.

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

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.

When you see someone, all you see is what they let you see.

A man with friends is the wealthiest man in the world.

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

That dog is a Marine!

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

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.

He nodded, approving. When he nodded, the two lesser attorneys nodded, too. No one had bothered to introduce them, but they didn't seem to mind.

She fingered the card and looked at the younger man. "James Edward, did you offer the man a cool drink?" James Edward said, "You want a Scrapple?

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

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

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

Stone checked his watch. Tempus fugit. "Gotta

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.

People want you to be ordinary.

There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.

My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.

Pike hung up. He knew he couldn't convince Darko with more talk. Darko would have to convince himself, and now he would either show or he wouldn't.

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

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

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.

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.

Daniel said, all serious, "I asked you, you seen a zombie? They got'm here in this place, I know for a fact." Tolley

Muthuhfuckin' muthuhfucker! I oughta come over there kick your ass myself, worryin'me like this? I got your back homes! I got your back!

He made a sympathetic shrug, then spread his hands. Flexibility, my friend. Flexibility is the key to all happiness. Remember that.

Giving them room is often the better part of valor, especially when you're trying not to make things worse.

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