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
book
Basbanes makes you love books.
literature cost postmodernism
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
teacher believe writing
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.
government punishment issues
At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.
punishment death-penalty capital-punishment
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
fiction lessons would-be
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
believe stories
Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
morning writing
I tend to write in the mornings.
narrative purpose ambiguity
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
mother mean said
'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.
unrequited-love together love-and-death
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
courage dignity absence
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
missing different citizens
After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.
disappointment want melancholy
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.