C. J. Box Quotes

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 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.

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.