Scott Turow Quotes
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For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.
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The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
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I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
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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.
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Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
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I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.
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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.
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The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right.
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Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?
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That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
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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.
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The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
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If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.