My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

People want you to be ordinary.

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.