People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
I invented the historical spy novel.
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.
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