I’m a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.
I can’t change overnight into a serious literary author. You can’t compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
I was a lawyer for 10 years – a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him – it’s the American way.
Poverty is a great equalizer.
It’s a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.
Writing’s still the most difficult job I’ve ever had – but it’s worth it.
The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.
I don’t usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
And that’s the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
After I’d been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
There’s always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
I don’t want to force my politics on my readers.
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I’ll be writing books, but if not, I’ll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.