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

The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk a lot about publishing, bookselling, and book writing. He's been around for ten years longer than me and was a bestseller right off the bat. And he's seen and done everything. It's rare to be with somebody who has been through all of that.

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

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

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