50 Quotes by Joseph Wambaugh

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

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.

It’s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head.

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

No, policemen were not danger lovers, they were seekers of the awesome, the incredible, even the unspeakable in human experience. Never mind whether they could interpret, never mind if it was potentially hazardous to the soul. To be there was the thing.

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I’m disciplined in spite of myself.