Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing books. And you tend to only get these things if you want them, and want them to the exclusion of everything else.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.