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

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

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.

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

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.

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

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