Literary Birthday – 12 April – Scott Turow
Happy Birthday, Scott Turow, born on 12 April 1949.
Scott Turow Quotes
- Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
- I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.
- The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
- If life’s lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
- Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.
- The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
- The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
- Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can’t deliver.
Scott Turow is an American lawyer and bestselling author celebrated for his crime and suspense novels set in the legal world. Turow earned his J.D. from Harvard in 1978, where he also wrote One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School. Additionally, Turow is the author of Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty and editor of Guilty As Charged: A Mystery Writers of America Anthology. His books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold over 30 million copies. Several have been adapted for film and television, including Presumed Innocent. Other titles include The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and Innocent. He was also the president of the Authors Guild from 2010 to 2014. His latest novel is Suspect. Follow him on Facebook.
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