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
begun certainly consciousness enormous interest public sort
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.
people programmed recognize sort
Even killers recognize that some people are sort of programmed to do mayhem.
basically coronation replaced sort talking
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.
amazed book couple extra four interested loops plot sort struck time
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.
saw ultimate
I saw that universality had got to be the ultimate objective.
durable
Yes, that's a pretty durable Turow theme. Everyone has two sides.
fidelity itself system
I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.
based inner shift time
I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.
mystery
Just because it's a mystery, it doesn't have to be mindless.
either existed fiction literary plain popular view
My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.
english headed life professor
I was headed for a life as an English professor but that just wasn't me.
films four realize separate work
I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work.
sit somebody tried
I hate second-guessing other lawyers because I know that I've tried and lost cases, and somebody could sit there and say, 'Should have done it this way,' and they'd have been right.
deal good great grown happens lawyers legal looking people perspective realistic
Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.