A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.