Predisposition is not predestination.

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

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

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

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

Predisposition is not predestination.