- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.
- Finely
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richmond Fontaine bandleader Willy Vlautin writes songs akin to finely composed short stories set in the diners, bars, casinos, and old hotels of Reno and its environs.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'The Washington Post' every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the page. Meaning, it taught me how to write.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 11 years old, in 1968, my job was to deliver food on foot, so I spent my day walking around the city. I had an active imagination, jacked up by movies. I passed the time making up stories and serializing them.
- Dreamer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad used to call me 'the dreamer.' He was right.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned me on in a big way to reading and books. I was lucky to have a teacher who changed the course of my life.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I don't know any other way to do it than crime.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of bars and shoe stores in my early books.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But the reality is that people have lived in Washington for generations, and their lives are worth examining, I think.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do miss the Chocolate City of my youth.
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to get a real film industry started in Washington. An actual one, not where features come to town and shoot second unit for a few days. I would love to get something started here. Hire local crews. People could work year-round and raise their families here.
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of guys are walking around with a lot simmering beneath the surface, and sometimes it explodes.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are not for everybody.
- Macdonald
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was heavily into John D. MacDonald.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never took a writing class.
- Hobbies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't relax. I don't have any hobbies.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owned a '70 Camaro for many years, which I loved.
- Hood
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing like the rumble of a dual-piped American car with something under the hood.
- Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many years, I did ride-alongs with patrol cops, which is any citizen's right.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shoot occasionally, but I'm no gun expert.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to sit in my pickup truck at 7 o'clock in the morning outside my office and listen to the Replacements or something full blast, thinking, 'What am I doing here?'
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to write the same book over and over.
- Nov 07, 2020
I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020