Jeff Lindsay

“It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.”

“Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.”

“There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.”

“I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.”

“Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.”

“I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.”

“I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.”

“We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.”

“My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.”

“'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.”

“It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.”