Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
Tags: believe, people, justice, you
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Tags: anything, too-much, expectations, myself
The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
Tags: training, world, cool, life
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
Tags: world, reading, people, peace, books
It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.
Tags: whole, truth, shaw, miracle, funny, divine, books
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