Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, ‘Am I going to be able to do this again?’ George Pelecanos Read Quote
I get chills when I think that there’s a statue of Phil Lynott on a street in Dublin, that people leave flowers by the statue. I love stuff like that. George Pelecanos Read Quote
Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they’re completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I’m not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split up, and marriages don’t work out, and people do the best they can. But if you’re going to not be there from the very beginning, then don’t do it. George Pelecanos Read Quote
In its rather clinical view of death, ‘True Grit’ rivals the hardboiled world of ‘Red Harvest’-era Dashiell Hammett and prefigures Cormac McCarthy by 20 years. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I was 15 years old in 1972, and yeah, when the 1970s broke, I was out there. Everything was kinda swirling around me – the music, women, cars, the culture. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I’ve just been very interested in the living side of Washington, rather than the federal side, since I was a kid. George Pelecanos Read Quote
There’s a room in my house where my stereo, records, CDs, and books are housed. I spend a lot of time in that room, sitting in my chair beside the fireplace, reading and listening to music. Sometimes I just stand before the shelves and look at my books, because every single one of them means something to me. George Pelecanos Read Quote
