I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
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… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
My sister was a twin, and the other baby died in childbirth, and I was three at the time, and I always kind of… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I hate second-guessing other lawyers because I know that I've tried and lost cases, and somebody could sit there and say, 'Should have done… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
