Ken Bruen, to interviewer (and novelist) Ray Banks:"I like to strip everything to the bone, see if it stands up by itself. The doorstop books -- 500 pages and up -- Jesus wept, who has that amount of time to piss away. Ninety percent of what I read is padding and I roar, "Get the fuck on with it!"
You can read the full Bruen/Banks interview at Allan Guthrie's Noir Originals.
