A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you’ve ever tried to write a billboard. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
I write crime novels and thrillers – I’m a big fan of cops. You can never forget that they run towards what everyone else runs away from. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you’ll see why. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
I’m a Hemingway fan, so in a manner of speaking, I’ve been fishing with him already. But man, would I love to board Pilar in Key West and head south until we have a day-long battle with a tarpon, haul that bad boy up, then celebrate by telling lies over rum on a Cuban terrace. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
My goal as a novelist is to create smart entertainment, books that keep bright people up too late, that make them want to read just one more chapter. Books that have ideas threaded in amidst the thrilling bits, ideas that I hope linger even after people close the book. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I’m writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that’s not what I want to do. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
If you pick up a copy of ‘A Better World,’ you’ll lose those last five pounds while saving a baby seal under a rainbow. I kid. It’ll be ten pounds. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
I don’t know if this is the flat-out strangest, but I’ll never forget handling a human brain. It had been sliced into sections for autopsy, each about an inch thick, and felt like pork tenderloin. I swear to god, my first thought was that if you were to dust it with chipotle and cinnamon and saute it in butter, it would probably be delicious. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I’m seeing it in my head while I’m reading. Marcus Sakey Read Quote
