Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

American - Writer | January 22, 1937 -

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

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Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

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The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

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I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

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If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

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When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

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No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

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The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

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When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

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The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

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I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

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