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Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.

Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

At the heart of drama is conflict.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.