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Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

If you write a written book, you're gonna get slowed up by lawyers wanting to see what you say about this person, that person - I couldn't be bothered with it.