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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Brian Dugan's crimes -- and the murder of Jeanine was not the only one -- are horrific. But I hope that whoever ultimately decides Brian Dugan's fate bears in mind that he also had the moral courage to accept responsibility for a crime he alone committed, even though he knew that the blame had fallen elsewhere. In so doing he set in motion the chain of events that ultimately allowed two innocent men who had been sentenced to death to be restored to freedom. Dugan's evil deeds are extraordinary and repugnant, but his courage also was extraordinary.
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I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
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Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
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The fact is that plot has brought out the best in me.
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I was headed for a life as an English professor but that just wasn't me.
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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.
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Like most American boys of my age I read a lot of Ian Fleming.
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I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.
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I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.
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Just because it's a mystery, it doesn't have to be mindless.
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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.
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My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.
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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.
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I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.