Quotes by Scott Turow

• I tend to write in the mornings.
• If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
• On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
• People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
• Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
• The great break of my literary career was going to law 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.
• The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
• The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.