"It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me."

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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."

"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."

"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."

"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

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"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."

"What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time."

"When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars."

"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area."

"When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer."

"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young."

"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."