Robert Crais quotes

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 heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday. (Robert Crais)
When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy. View quote
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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 understand just how wonderful and special dogs are. View quote
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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. View quote
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People want you to be ordinary. View quote
Robert Crais
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. View quote
Robert Crais
There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered. View quote
Robert Crais
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. View quote
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The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them. View quote
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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 the stuff of great stories. View quote
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First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives. (Robert Crais)
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. View quote
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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 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. View quote
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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 people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal. View quote
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I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. View quote
Robert Crais
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut. View quote
Robert Crais
Dogs give us something just as we give something to them. View quote
Robert Crais
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. View quote
Robert Crais
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)
I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart. View quote
Robert Crais
L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream. View quote
Robert Crais
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. View quote
Robert Crais
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. View quote
Robert Crais