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

    Work | Enjoy | Adapt


    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.

    Police | Surviving | Onion


    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.

    Dangerous | Almost | Brush


    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.

    Lawyers | Trials | Sure


    You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.

    Looking | Evidence | Ignoring


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

    Practice | Onion | Wrote


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

    Interview | Accused | Ask


    What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

    Fire | Written | Component


    The time has come for professional jurors.

    Time | Jurors


    The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

    Evidence | DNA | Case


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

    Percent | Screen | Written


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

    Six


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

    Difficult | Evidence | Burned


    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.

    Page | Wait | Test


    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.

    River | Stand | Hollywood


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

    Good | Today | Lawyers


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

    Looking | Process | Emotional


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

    Research | Enjoy | Detective


    Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

    Time | Nonfiction | Sued


    Civil servants take forever to do anything.

    Forever | Servants | Civil


       

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