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.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

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.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

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

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.