Writers all have their inspirations. Some come from our own genres—Joseph Wambaugh, Lawrence Block, and others are among my crime fiction influences—while others come from all across the writing spectrum.
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Let’s be honest: we are a violent society. Crime is our national story and birthright. The colonist went west and became the cowboy; the cowboy became the gangster, who became the politician. Machiavellian principles of power prevailed.
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John Adams (allegedly) said it first: “If a person is not a liberal when he is twenty, he has no heart; if he is not a conservative when he is forty, he has no head.” I know better than to disagree with the dead—there’s no way to win the argument—but John missed the boat with that one, at least as far as I’m concerned.
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