Scott Turow Quotes

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• On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
• That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
• If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
• Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
• I tend to write in the mornings.
• The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
• The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
• The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that…
• The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.
• 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 specialness…
• Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of…
• If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to…
• The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital…
• As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of…
• Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.
• Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help…
• I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
• The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
• All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
• The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

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