Scott Turow Quotes
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
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I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
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I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.
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No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
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If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope for singularity rests in his voice. Tone is everything.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.
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A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.
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If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.
