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
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The bottom line is, I am against capital punishment, despite my understanding of the visceral attraction it has for most Americans.
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Criminal law in particular does indeed present human beings in extremis. You're always dealing with definitions of evil.
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It turned out people were intensely curious about what actually goes on in courtrooms, and that Americans were deeply interested in law.
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It's the inability of the laws and institutions to accommodate these fine differences in people that has always provided a theme for me.
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All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy who everybody in the family regarded as disagreeable at best. But I loved him intensely. He was wonderful to me.
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Accessibility! This was a battle for my soul.
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It's all words, that's all the law is,
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I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
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I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer.
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Americans became interested in what was going on in courtrooms because so much was being decided there.
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Americans stopped believing in the melting pot and in universal American values.
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I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.
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I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.
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I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.