We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
Ross MacdonaldWhen there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
Ross MacdonaldI used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. Iām still going through the motions.
Ross MacdonaldThe walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
Ross Macdonald