George Pelecanos Quotes

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

I don't write the same book twice.