Scott Turow Quotes

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.