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Robert Crais
Robert Crais
American Author
Born: Jun 20, 1953
Dog Dogs Love Me People Think
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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
Animal Dog Human Being Other Way Does Suspect Human Being Human Beings Which Beings Bond Bonds
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
Best Food Great Amazing Insanity Sign Angeles Observatory Los Los Angeles Square Square Miles Hollywood Planet Miles
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
Me People Pet Big Lose Lost Able Fabulous Never Had He Wrong Most Him Another Felt Been Replace Normally Get Going Just Loved Disloyal Who Keep Keep Going
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
Love Fall Characters Weakness Maggie Horrible Scott Suspect Going Just Much Started
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
Dog Anxiety Fear Smell Skin Changes Way Out Emotion Dogs Person Acid Sweats Your Suddenly Amount Suggest
The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them. Robert Crais
World Smell Sense Primary Around Dogs Doorway Them
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
Life Me People Better Thought Be True Chasing Other Else Dream Would Would-Be Find Something Something Else Better Life Write Had True Come Like Because Proved Came Being Where Wanted Place Who Why Here
If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut. Robert Crais
Good Vision Enough Astronaut
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
Book Strive Something Something New Write Over New Same Want Again Really Each Bring
When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy. Robert Crais
Happy Dogs Roles Fulfill
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 understand just how wonderful and special dogs are. Robert Crais
Love People Dog Wonderful Think Everyone Most Knows Understand How Dogs Families American Just American Families Realize Really Special
I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction. Robert Crais
Time You Crime Long Long Time Trapped Crime Fiction Secretly Find Bet Writers Long Time Ago Feel Know Read Lot Where Fiction Literary Place Themselves Really Who Fun Now Awful Right Awful Lot Started
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 adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic. Robert Crais
Adversity Nature Character Struggle People Rise Above Heroic Herself Our Background Our Lives Those Find Some Rise Above Perfect Inspired No-One Almost Most Him Always Fiction Interesting Us Much Who Lives Desire Need
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 my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life. Robert Crais
Life Work Death Me Writing Mother Father Fears Long Real Life Control Situation Would Wrestling Through Had Allowed Over Sure How Real Came Any Wanted Story Frustrations Help Novelist Desires
L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream. Robert Crais
Me Every Dream See Magic Level
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 people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly. Robert Crais
You People Sometimes Find Wounded Weeks Days Dead Protecting Leave Dogs Were Encounter Began Sitting Endlessly Cemeteries Refusing Dying Stories Bodies Bonded
The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness. Robert Crais
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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
Love Crime Sister Down Digging Crime Fiction Bookstore Stuff Fell Came Fiction Hole Rabbit Little Used Right Night
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
Family Me Police Think Hats About Writer Know Became Closet Hard
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 it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him. Robert Crais
Today Generation Writing Impossible Every Think Has-Been Detective Followed Parker Writer Robert Genre Him Read Been Influenced Fiction Fiction Writing
I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart. Robert Crais
Me Heart Characters Write Move Stories

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