Dennis Lehane, a writer on The Wire, is an American crime novelist best known for Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, which have both been adapted into Oscar-nominated films. His next novel, The Given Day, will be published in January I'd known David Simon for a bit, and I knew George Pelecanos quite well. David asked me to write an episode for the third season and I said, 'sure', because I was a great fan. I'd never written for TV before. I was a little out of my depth at first - I wrote too long and too many speeches. In a script, less truly equals more. You have to be more judicious and your characters have to come out and act. There's no time to dick around with them sitting around thinking or talking about what they might do, which is the type of lassitude you can engage with if you're a novelist. David talks a lot about...
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