149 Quotes by Scott Turow

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.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

Just because it's a mystery, it doesn't have to be mindless.

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.

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.

Yes, that's a pretty durable Turow theme. Everyone has two sides.

Those kind of dilemmas are commonplace when you're a prosecutor. You're always in that position with the flipper witnesses.

Even killers recognize that some people are sort of programmed to do mayhem.

'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.