I tend to write in the mornings.
Scott Turow

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

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
Scott Turow

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

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Scott Turow

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

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

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

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