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36 quotes by Robert Crais

Robert Crais Born (1953-06-20) June 20, 1953 (age 61) Independence, Louisiana, United States Pen name Elvis Cole, Jerry Gret Samouche Occupation Novelist, Screenwriter Genre Fiction, Crime Fiction, Thrillers Website www.robertcrais.com Robert Crais (born June 20, 1953) is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and...
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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... →

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My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to... →

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I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help... →

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I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and... →

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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... →

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There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of... →

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