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

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

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

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