If I had my druthers, I wouldn’t have anyone’s words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels. George Pelecanos Read Quote
At 11 years old, in 1968, my job was to deliver food on foot, so I spent my day walking around the city. I had an active imagination, jacked up by movies. I passed the time making up stories and serializing them. George Pelecanos Read Quote
After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about – bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man – while voraciously reading novels. George Pelecanos Read Quote
The Turnaround’ isn’t even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I don’t know any other way to do it than crime. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I want to be read. When you write a TV show like ‘The Wire,’ you’ve got three to four million readers watching your work. Even Grisham doesn’t sell that many books. George Pelecanos Read Quote
It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions – and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons. George Pelecanos Read Quote
