Scott Turow
Scott Turow
Scott Frederick Turowis an American author and lawyer. Turow has written nine fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Films have been based on several of his books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 April 1949
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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It turned out people were intensely curious about what actually goes on in courtrooms, and that Americans were deeply interested in law.
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I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.
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For people like me, people of a certain privilege, the sixties were extremely important in shaping our sense of humanity.
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Criminal law in particular does indeed present human beings in extremis. You're always dealing with definitions of evil.
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My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.
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In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was.
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Americans stopped believing in the melting pot and in universal American values.
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I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
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Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.'
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I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer.
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As a graduate student and a writing fellow, innovation was all. As a trial lawyer, accessibility was everything.
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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.
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I'm not a scholar, I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
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I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.