“I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little S...” — Robert Crais Quote

“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.”

“My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.”

“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.”

“A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.”

“I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.”

“I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.”