Echoes in the Darkness
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Source: Floaters: A Novel
“Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.”
“The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.”
“The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.”
“I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.”
Source: Echoes in the Darkness
“It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head”
“I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.”
“I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.”
“I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.”
“I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.”
“When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.”
“The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.”