Scott Turow famous quotes

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.
-- Scott Turow

#Thinking #Offering #Curiosity

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.
-- Scott Turow

#Technology #Support #Training

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
-- Scott Turow

#Democracy #Guarantees #Pillars

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.
-- Scott Turow

#Reading #Drug #Poison

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.
-- Scott Turow

#Book #Firsts #Remember

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.
-- Scott Turow

#Unique #Mind #Way

For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.
-- Scott Turow

#Children #School #Kids

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.
-- Scott Turow

#Law #Rights #Goal

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.
-- Scott Turow

#Art #Persistence #People

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
-- Scott Turow

#Narrative #Purpose #Ambiguity

I tend to write in the mornings.
-- Scott Turow

#Morning #Writing

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
-- Scott Turow

#Believe #Stories

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
-- Scott Turow

#Library

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
-- Scott Turow

#Book #Successful #Bird

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
-- Scott Turow

#Lying #Law #Novel

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
-- Scott Turow

#School #Law #Careers

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
-- Scott Turow

#Unrequited Love #Together #Love And Death

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
-- Scott Turow

#Courage #Dignity #Absence

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.
-- Scott Turow

#Missing #Different #Citizens

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
-- Scott Turow

#Disappointment #Want #Melancholy

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
-- Scott Turow

#People #Thrillers #Inventor

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.
-- Scott Turow

#Goes On #Life Is #Reason

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.
-- Scott Turow

#Judging #Needs #Defense

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
-- Scott Turow

#Fiction #Lessons #Would Be

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
-- Scott Turow

#Burden #Proof #Prosecutor

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
-- Scott Turow

#Book #Movement #Plot

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.
-- Scott Turow

#Voice #Guilds #American Writer

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.
-- Scott Turow

#Suicide #Odds #Drug

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
-- Scott Turow

#Punishment #Death Penalty #Capital Punishment

If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.
-- Scott Turow

#Writing #Passion #Simple

The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right.
-- Scott Turow

#Real #Punishment #Issues

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
-- Scott Turow

#Law #Years #Firsts