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Sylvester Stallone has memorized a lot of Procol Harum lyrics, and for the next two minutes I'm going to hear them. Because if you want to know what inspires a man to write a movie in which hundreds of people are blown up and which, by his own estimate, contains only three pages of dialogue between the two main characters, apparently you have to listen to the lyrics of a psychedelic 1968 song called In Held 'Twas in I: Glimpses of Nirvana. This is the song that made Stallone want to be a writer, which is surprising because while...
...recently wrote your first nonfiction book, The Innocent Man. Will you write more like it? -Anne Sherwood Kansas City, Mo.No. Nonfiction is too much work. I'm too lazy to do all the research. I actually never thought about [writing nonfiction], but when I saw the story, I knew I had to write...
...there are enough of the slimy ones to juice up the profession and create a lot of good stories. 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...
...churn out a book almost every year. Does that impact the quality? -Cynthia Moyer, Salt Lake CityI don't think so, because if I had more time, I wouldn't use it. I'd wait until the last three months and write the book. I learned how to procrastinate in law school, I perfected it as I practiced law, and now I am an expert. I've written stuff when I had plenty of time, and it wasn't very good...
...think your writing has changed over time? How would you compare A Time to Kill with A Painted House? -Julie Njeri, Nairobi, KenyaThere are moments when I seriously try to assess what I am writing and how I am writing. There has been no deliberate effort to change anything. I still aspire to write a high quality of popular fiction. If you read The Appeal and went back and read The Firm, I am not sure you could tell a difference in the writing style...