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23 quotes by Joseph Wambaugh

Joseph Wambaugh Born (1937-01-22) January 22, 1937 (age 78) East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Occupation Writer Nationality United States Genre Mystery Subject Non-fiction crime Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and...
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As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.

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

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Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

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I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

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

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Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

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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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What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

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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... →

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I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

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

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