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It was something like stirring concrete with my eyelashes.

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If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

There is nothing like the plumbing fixtures to remind you that you're not in Kansas anymore. By

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

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I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

Was love worth not having the life you wanted?

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs' ... One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

Like every other hypocrite alive, he was very good at applying unyielding standards to others. Bozic

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

It wasn't luck or the order of the universe. It was simply what had happened.

Life, of course, is full of people you discover you like a lot and then never see again.

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

You accept that it happened. But you know that life burned this hole in your heart and it's not going to heal.

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Basbanes makes you love books.

I tend to write in the mornings.

For all of my success, in looking back I couldn't identify a moment when, at core, I had felt fully at home with myself. My

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome.