Scott Turow
Scott Turow
Scott Frederick Turowis an American author and lawyer. Turow has written nine fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Films have been based on several of his books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 April 1949
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
begun certainly consciousness enormous interest public sort
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.
based inner shift time
I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.
mystery
Just because it's a mystery, it doesn't have to be mindless.
above age animated capacities civil dynamic impressed mantra movement sam
Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.
age age-and-aging boys
Like most American boys of my age I read a lot of Ian Fleming.
baby confusing dad died haunted home sister three time weird
My sister was a twin, and the other baby died in childbirth, and I was three at the time, and I always kind of thought it haunted me. It was a weird thing. My dad was an ob-gyn, and so it was confusing that the other baby didn't come home from the hospital.
either existed fiction literary plain popular view
My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.
saw ultimate
I saw that universality had got to be the ultimate objective.
badge courage interested novel red serious
I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
break great literary mean
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
durable
Yes, that's a pretty durable Turow theme. Everyone has two sides.
dilemmas position
Those kind of dilemmas are commonplace when you're a prosecutor. You're always in that position with the flipper witnesses.
films four realize separate work
I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work.
sit somebody tried
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 it this way,' and they'd have been right.