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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Even killers recognize that some people are sort of programmed to do mayhem.
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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.
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Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.
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Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
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Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively.
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I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.
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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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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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For people like me, people of a certain privilege, the sixties were extremely important in shaping our sense of humanity.
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Generally speaking most of the people I saw who were irretrievably violent, were people who had had violence done to them as children.
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The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
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People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
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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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Criminal law in particular does indeed present human beings in extremis. You're always dealing with definitions of evil.