Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.