Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information shehe has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that shehe has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.