I Don't Miss Being A Reporter As

There Were A Billion Lights Out There On The Horizon And I Knew That All Of Them Put Together Weren't Enough To Light The Darkness In The Hearts Of Some Men.

We're All Seeking Order. We're All Seeking Control.

Money. The Ultimate Motivation. The Ultimate Way Of Keeping Score.

To Write More From Memory And To Be More Creative - I Think - Because I Am Still Writing About Los Angeles But I Can't Walk Out My Door And Immediately Drive To Places I Am Writing About. So I Think It Has Been A Very Good Change For Me After 11 Books To Start Writing This Way.

I Was Enamored Of Detectives As A Teenager. I Liked What They Did - Piecing Things Together, Thinking About Situations. But To Get There? Eight To Ten Years In A Patrol Car? I Didn't Have That In Me. I Didn't Want To Tell People What To Do.