Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

Predisposition is not predestination.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.