Scott Turow Quotes

"If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Life, Fiction)

"On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Death, Love, Shakespeare)

"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Legal, People, Being, Talk)

"Postmodernism cost literature its audience."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Literature)

"The great break of my literary career was going to law school."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Career, Law, Literary, School)

"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
(Related: Being, Books, Credit, Importance, Literary, Worth)

"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Burden, Proof)

"The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Purpose, Ambiguity, Complexity, Present)