I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
- Joseph Wambaugh
My Own, Like, Books, Adapting
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.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Going, Brush, Almost, Fires
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Book, Get, I Write, Nonfiction
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.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Some, Sure, Took, Defendant
As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Some, Hollywood, Cop, Hollywood People
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.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Back, Hollywood, Sell, Hollywood People
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Evidence, Most, Serial, Apprehend
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Practice, Onion, Wrote, Novels
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.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Indifference, Some, Pretty, Department
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Process, Both Sides, Jury, Manipulate
Civil servants take forever to do anything.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Servants, Civil, Take, Civil Servants
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
- Joseph Wambaugh
People, Capital, Accused, Interview
Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Good Example, Lawyers, More, Simpson
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Want, DNA, Evidence, Simpson
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Doing, Some, Detective, Nonfiction
What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Fire, About, Written, Component
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.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Wait, Test, Last, DNA
You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Other, Like, Evidence, DNA
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Field, Over, Cop, Onion
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
- Joseph Wambaugh
Over, System, Certainly, Jury
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