Ann Rule Quotes

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it's moment-by-moment, and it's packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.

Life as a barrister never was terribly real to me, and courtrooms were always a place of fantasy to me. They had nothing to do with discovering the truth, really, of course.

I'm not pretending when I'm in that court room.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

Both sides should demand a speedy trial.

The court is where I can express something that I've got deep inside me.

Nobody likes going to court.

The time has come for professional jurors.