Robert crais

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.

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my...

The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.

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

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

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.

My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.

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.