 On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. |
| I tend to write in the mornings. |
| 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. |
| People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. |
| The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. |
| If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. |
| The great break of my literary career was going to law school. |
| The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. |
| Postmodernism cost literature its audience. |
