It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
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.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
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.
