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

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.

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

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

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

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

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