149 Quotes by Scott Turow

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer.

It's the inability of the laws and institutions to accommodate these fine differences in people that has always provided a theme for me.

It turned out people were intensely curious about what actually goes on in courtrooms, and that Americans were deeply interested in law.

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.

I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

I'm not a scholar, I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

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

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.

In each of my books a character begins to take over.