I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I get chills when I think that there's a statue of Phil Lynott on a street in Dublin, that people leave flowers… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
There was a hole in Washington fiction, I felt, when I started out. Most D.C. novels were about politics or the federal… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
My goal is to get a real film industry started in Washington. An actual one, not where features come to town and… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
What we were all always saying with 'The Wire' was that there's a whole group of people that America just sort of… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
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.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share
My goal is to get a real film industry started in Washington. An actual one, not where features come to town and shoot second… — George Pelecanos Copy Share
I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people… — George Pelecanos Copy Share
I've just been very interested in the living side of Washington, rather than the federal side, since I was a kid. — George Pelecanos Copy Share
I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me. — George Pelecanos Copy Share
My father was a Marine who fought in the Pacific in WW II. He was a very tough guy, but after the war, he… — George Pelecanos Copy Share
But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black… — George Pelecanos Copy Share
