No matter how thick that book was, we had to get it done by the end of the month. It was annoying at the time. But it gave me a real good sense of when authors are hitting their mark and when they're not. Then somehow between the beginning and the middle, the ending dictated itself. And it may be this ability to strip art down to its guts that has gotten Duffy where he is.
People watching the news sometimes get so disgusted by what they see.
Susan Smith drowning her kids . You hear things that disgust you so much that even if you're Mother Teresa, there comes a breaking point. And tell it as truthfully as I could. It's not like, 'Hey, you raped my wife and killed my family, I'm coming after six particular dudes.' . . . I've never seen you before in my life, but you're a drug dealer, you're a pimp, you're in the mob, you die.