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...typical refuge for a Hist. and Lit. major who didn’t want to go work for Goldman Sachs. Then I got to law school and I realized, “Oh my God, what am I doing?”...I took a couple of undergraduate creative writing classes and I persuaded this professor named James Vorenberg [’48]...to let me write my third-year paper...as a creative third-year paper. I sort of wrote a spec script for “Law & Order?...
...were a Hist. and Lit. concentrator at Harvard, which means you must have read many Western classics. Did anyone in particular inspire you to write crime or medical drama...
...never thought I would ever write for a medical show...I just never liked science classes or anything like that. I’ll tell you how it’s helped. Two things: A lot of writing...comes out of research and Harvard will teach you how to do that. More than that, writing is rewriting...a good writer is miserable with everything he’s done...I do feel that at Harvard you learn to work really hard. And you learn to be a perfectionist, and I think that’s come in handy more than...
...TIME: Why did you write this book...
...Well, it's in context. The personal, non-historical side of this book is about my relationship with her, which had a rough patch that happened to coincide with the release of that movie. I write about our hardest moments for 40 pages or so; the history and her life and our reconciliation take up the remaining three hundred...