The Good Thing About Writing Fiction Is

After I'd Been A Lawyer For About Five Or Six Years, I Started Playing Around With Fiction.

I Was A Lawyer For 10 Years - A Short Time, But It Molded Me Into Who I Am.

When You Work At Street Level You Never Know Who's Going To Walk Through Your Door.

And They Drank Heavily, Partied With Great Enthusiasm, And Relished The Drug Culture; They Moved In And Out And Slept Around, And This Was Okay Because They Defined Their Own Morality. They Were Fighting For The Mexicans And The Redwoods, Dammit! They Had To Be Good People!

The Worst Letters Come From Retired High School English Teachers. They Will Literally Take A Book And Pick It To Pieces And Send Me 14 Pages Of Notes.