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Authors
Scott Turow
American
Novelist
About the author
I tend to write in the mornings.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Fiction
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Death
#Shakespeare
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
#Talk
#People
#Being
#Legal
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
#Literature
The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
#Career
#Law
#School
#Literary
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.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
#Being
#Books
#Literary
#Worth
#Importance
#Credit
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
#Burden
#Proof
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Scott Turow,
American
Novelist
#Purpose
#Present
#Complexity
#Ambiguity