“I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.” MenPlayWholeGuyRocksWhole LifeRock Music Author:Sammy Hagar
“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.” BookSometimesMiddleFlash Author:Robert Crais
“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.” ThinkingKnowsHardMy FamilyPoliceHatsClosetsRefinery Author:Robert Crais
“What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.” WayPersonsEmotionDogAmountAnxietySkinsSmellSweatAcid Author:Robert Crais
“I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.” WritingHeartCharacterStoriesMoving Author:Robert Crais
“I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.” WritingBookFactsReader Author:Robert Crais
“I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.” PeopleRealSometimesStoriesBodyWeekDyingDogSittingReal LifeEncountersWoundedCemeteryLife Story Author:Robert Crais
“I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal.” PeopleBigsAbleLostFeltLosesPetKeep GoingFabulousDisloyal Author:Robert Crais
“At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.” PeopleLongWould BeSufferingForceProcessDifficultEffortAirDogMilitaryTreatmentPtsdAir ForceLengthy Author:Robert Crais