Camaro Years Quotes by George Pelecanos

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

I'm more apt to shed a tear than my wife about family matters.

— George Pelecanos

People like to talk to me. I don't know why.

— George Pelecanos

I'm a very sentimental, emotional person.

— George Pelecanos

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

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

“And Constantine thought: So this is how it is, at the end.”

— George Pelecanos

I never took a writing class.

— George Pelecanos

I've just been very interested in the living side of Washington, rather than the federal side, since I was a kid.

— George Pelecanos

I can't relax. I don't have any hobbies.

— George Pelecanos

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

— George Pelecanos

I was a movie freak before I was a book lover.

— George Pelecanos