Author: Scott Turow

Quotes

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

- Scott Turow

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

- Scott Turow

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

- Scott Turow

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

- Scott Turow

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

- Scott Turow

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

- Scott Turow

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

- Scott Turow

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