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" 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. "
People
Work
New York
" Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit. "
Every
Morning
Wake
" I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature. "
Blue
Book
Always
" I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. "
Try
Goal
Good
" 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. "
You
Genius
Great
" I don't want to force my politics on my readers. "
Politics
Force
Want
" I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour. "
First
Steady
Rose
" I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them. "
Enjoy
Problems
Say
" I hate prologues because they're kind of gimmicks to suck you in. "
Kind
Hate
Suck
" I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work. "
Hate
Life
People
" I love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down. "
Thoughts
Down
Together
" I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. "
Bad
Death
You
" I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial. "
Never
Doubt
Story
" I start every morning at 7 or 7:30 in the same place - my little office where it's dark and cozy - with a cup of the same really strong black coffee. It's my little cocoon. There's no phone or fax or Internet. And no music. "
Coffee
Strong
Music
" I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way. "
Me
I Am
Time
" More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. "
Enough
Wrong
People
" Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. "
Because
Enough
Representation
" My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since. "
Love
Start
Name
" Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff. "
Money
You
Real Estate
" Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. "
Fascinating
Prisons
Places
" Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. "
Start
Loved
Time
" Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message. "
Death
Good
Death Penalty
" There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption. "
Corruption
Money
Good
" There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category. "
Nobody
Use
Knows
" There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get. "
Judgment
Fair
Always
" Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system. "
People
Tell
Fun
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