Quotes from C. J. Box

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

That's ruining two good drinks (adding water to scotch).

Nate snorted and said, "Maybe you should get a job. It might take your mind off all the unfairness going on out there.

Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess. Nate