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.

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

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

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

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

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

Civil servants take forever to do anything.