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I tend to write in the mornings.

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

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It turned out people were intensely curious about what actually goes on in courtrooms, and that Americans were deeply interested in law.

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Presumed Innocent was filmed for the movies and The Burden of Proof was filmed for TV.

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

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The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

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I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.

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Even killers recognize that some people are sort of programmed to do mayhem.

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In the wake of the Sixties they began to celebrate diversity and pluralism.

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

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Americans stopped believing in the melting pot and in universal American values.

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You can't say there's going to be no death penalty and then say we can't have severe conditions of confinement.

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Generally speaking most of the people I saw who were irretrievably violent, were people who had had violence done to them as children.

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The embrace of plot has allowed something like the Oprah book club phenomenon to emerge.

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Just because it's a mystery, it doesn't have to be mindless.

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De Tocqueville talked about the legalistic bent of American culture but, whatever that was, it became accentuated in the latter part of the twentieth century.

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

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

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It's the inability of the laws and institutions to accommodate these fine differences in people that has always provided a theme for me.

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For people like me, people of a certain privilege, the sixties were extremely important in shaping our sense of humanity.

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I always say that I don't criticize anybody's position on the death penalty because I've held all of them.

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In the broadest terms it is, like much literature, about life and death.

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I did not realize how bad, how desperately bad the plight of the black urban poor had become.

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

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I then became a defense lawyer and saw the system go wrong, saw innocent people convicted and sentenced to death, and people who were certainly guilty, but who had not committed crimes as grave as the punishment.

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