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Don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

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

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

The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

A liberal, it turns out, is a conservative who's been indicted.

Nobody gets to you without going through me - and nobody's getting through me.

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

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

We're not arguing. We're discussing." "You're a lawyer; you don't know the difference. I'm arguing.

A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.

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.

Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances.

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

I had a childish attraction to men of my father's generation, as if I still harbored a faint hope of being unorphaned, even at this late date.

Predisposition is not predestination.

Free will is as important to the law as it is to religion or any other code of morality. We do not punish the leopard for its wildness.

But good friendships require complementary personalities, not identical ones.

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

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

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and have been since we began drawing on cave walls.

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

you ever do it?" "It's a talent

One worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed - but after all, we were children.

A hint of nonconformity was all he would risk.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you - and it will find you

Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance and magical thinking,

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

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

Somewhere she had learned that if an interviewer remains silent, the interviewee will rush to fill the silence.

Of course, that sort of dramatic email is

It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly.

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

No one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

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