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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In each of my books a character begins to take over.
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Generally speaking most of the people I saw who were irretrievably violent, were people who had had violence done to them as children.
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Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.
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I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.
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I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.
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I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.
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I don't like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft - that's too much like work. There's not much inspiration about it, and the lawyerly side kicks in - being very careful and somewhat technical.
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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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It's all words, that's all the law is,
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I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
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I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer.
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Accessibility! This was a battle for my soul.
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It's the inability of the laws and institutions to accommodate these fine differences in people that has always provided a theme for me.
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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.