I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.