I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.

He approached me and said he was thinking of going to law school. But then he told me what had happened, and I advised him that even if he made it through law school, he wouldn't be able to pass the New York bar because he had a felony conviction.

It's not as simple as looking at the number of students going into law school and suggesting that they'll all need to qualify when they get out,

I don't really know why I went to law school.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.