American - Author | February 18, 1957 -
I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.
George Pelecanos
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It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons.
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I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.
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Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told.
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'The Big Sky' is an American classic.
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My goal is to get better with each book, and I feel like I am.
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I never went to school for writing, never took a writing class, but when you're in a room with David Simon and Ed Burns and Dennis Lehane and Richard Price, and they're going over something you've written, you learn what works and what doesn't.
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When I was 19, my dad got sick, and I quit college to take over his business, a coffee shop on 19th Street, below Dupont Circle in D.C. I had been working there since I was 11 years old, so it was not a stretch to think that I could do it, but my record as a teenager, in many respects, was less than stellar.
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I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.
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I make a good spaghetti sauce and can mix a nice drink.
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Every young man's best purchase is his first car, which spells freedom. My first one was a '70 Camaro, springtime gold-over-saddle, a 307 with Hi-jackers and chrome reverse mags.
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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.
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