My take on gentrification and change is it’s usually always a better thing, because when you see all these businesses open and flourishing, that means there are more jobs. George Pelecanos Read Quote
It’s relatively easy to adopt kids if you’re not trying to get kids that look exactly like you. George Pelecanos Read Quote
My father’s diner, the Jefferson Coffee Shop, was a simple, 27-seat affair in Washington D.C., open for breakfast and lunch – coffee and eggs in the morning, cold cuts and burgers in the afternoon. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I had met many wounded veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when I was researching my 2009 novel ‘The Turnaround,’ and I continue to be very interested in how returning servicemen and women deal with their new lives back home and how they’re treated by America. George Pelecanos Read Quote
My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned me on in a big way to reading and books. I was lucky to have a teacher who changed the course of my life. George Pelecanos Read Quote
Random Rules’ kicks off ‘American Water,’ and from its opening line – ‘In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection’ – you know you’re in for something strange and special. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason. George Pelecanos Read Quote
Where I live, there are a lot of businesses owned by Ethiopians and Eritreans. They’re the new immigrants, the new Greeks – what my people did. The next generation of these people will probably be college graduates. That’s how it works, right there in front of your eyes. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I like writing about people who spend their time trying to help others for the greater good. That’s what Americans are supposed to be about, right? George Pelecanos Read Quote
