I’m an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That’s the ugly side of why I’m proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there’s a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here. Scott Turow Read Quote
I don’t know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can watch ‘Presumed Innocent’ again and again, and I will always be bothered by the same things that will never bother anybody else. Scott Turow Read Quote
Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can’t deliver. Scott Turow Read Quote
Presumed Innocent’ was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff… My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then… as a writer of fiction, I hadn’t gotten very far. I just wanted to do it. Scott Turow Read Quote
Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or larger size, New York and Chicago being the most obvious examples. Scott Turow Read Quote
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. Scott Turow Read Quote
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. Scott Turow Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Black Beauty,’ by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7. Scott Turow Read Quote
I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on. Scott Turow Read Quote