George Pelecanos Quotes

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.

Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.' 'I got it covered.' 'The DiMarcos might be in town.' 'Actually, they're in jail.' 'All seven of them?' Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

Ask any cop, and they'll assure you that it doesn't exactly take a forensics team from NCIS to figure out that someone is an illegal.

I've seen other people getting into trouble for glamorising breaking the law.

We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we are all enveloped.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

The inability to access evidence or intelligence despite the lawful authority to do so significantly impacts the FBI's ability to identify, investigate, prosecute, or otherwise deter criminals, terrorists, and other offenders.

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.