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

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

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for...

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for...

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

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

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

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

I tend to write in the mornings.

I tend to write in the mornings.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

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

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