cognitive dissonance

"Never tell me the odds."
- Han Solo, Star Wars, Episode 5

"There was a crime. There was a victim. And there is punishment.
- Rusty Sabich, Presumed Innocent

25 million books sold

"There was a crime. There was a victim. There is punishment."
- Rusty Sabich in Presumed Innocent

routine

"Sometimes it's a paragraph or sometimes it's six pages."
- Scott Turow on his writing process

He's seen things