You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.