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Scott Turow

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


— Scott Turow


#love #melancholy #love

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


#mourning #separation #love

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


— Scott Turow


#experience

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


— Scott Turow


#inventor #legal #me #people #talk

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.


— Scott Turow


#cost #literature #postmodernism

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


— Scott Turow


#career #going #great #law #law school

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


— Scott Turow


#fiction #lessons #life #need #reduced

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


— Scott Turow


#burden #carry #proof #prosecutor #really

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


— Scott Turow


#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

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


#being #books #could #credit #had






About Scott Turow






Did you know about Scott Turow?

He received an Edith Mirrielees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center where he attended from 1970 to 1972. Scott Turow later became a Jones Lecturer at Stanford serving until 1975 when he entered Harvard Law School. In 1977 Turow wrote One L a book about his first year at law school.

Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies. Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12 1949) is an American author and a practicing lawyer.

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