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Scott Turow

American Novelist

Born: Apr 12, 1949

Book Law Life Me People You

Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

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

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I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there. Scott Turow

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

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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. Scott Turow

Truth Persistence People Matter Down Critical Knocked Most Up Get Getting Often Arts After Again Succeed Who

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

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together. Scott Turow

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In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was. Scott Turow

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

Burden Carry Proof Prosecutor Supposed Author Really Who

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

Complexity Purpose Narrative Ambiguity Us Present

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

Life Single Would Would-Be Could Reduced Fiction Sentences Lessons Need

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

Me Legal People Thriller Inventor Talk Being

Postmodernism cost literature its audience. Scott Turow

Postmodernism Cost Audience Literature

I tend to write in the mornings. Scott Turow

Tend Write Mornings

There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers. Scott Turow

I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash. Scott Turow

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I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it. Scott Turow

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I don't like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft - that's too much like work. There's not much inspiration about it, and the lawyerly side kicks in - being very careful and somewhat technical. Scott Turow

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Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access. Scott Turow

Good Evil Think Everything Bad Given Access Amazon Lot Authors

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school. Scott Turow

Great Law School Say Law School Always Literary Break Mean Career

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me. Scott Turow

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I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days. Scott Turow

Work Day Every Day Law Every Criminal Almost Almost Every Day Days Practise

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

Lie Law Beneath About Sharp Edges Ambiguity Novels

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