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

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

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

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.

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

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

There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.