Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.