Quotes from Scott Turow

Only when my marriage ended another decade later did I tumble to the recognition that my sister was happy, far happier than many other people who arrive in their middle years, including me.

This isn't on you,' he told her. It was nothing more than wicked coincidence. UCAs got made most often by cops or prosecutors who recognized them.

Dixon was Stern's brother-in-law, married to Silvia, his sister, Stern's sole living immediate relation and the enduring object of his affections.

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Personally, I had virtually no firsthand experience with the US military, since I was of that social class which, in my time, didn't get involved in defending their country, much like the five-hundred-plus members of Congress who had voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq and then as a group sent a single child to fight there when the war started.

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spending semesters at MIT, where he was completing a doctorate in Game Theory.

He was now the CEO of Distance Communications, a hi-tech manufacturer of the electronic components for various weapons systems, part of that immense gray world of military contracting where billions were made and little was publicly known.

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do very well.

Donne had declared that no person is an island. He had it exactly wrong. We all are.

Marta Stern to her father Sandy:] "Science is where the truth is in our world," she said that night in the office. "What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.

Democracy and the rule of law are much more fragile than most Americans realize.

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Winning is like sex—the spirit inevitably craves the next occasion.

Science is where the truth is in our world,' she said that night in the office. 'What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science.

There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There's less of that in 'Innocent,' and deliberately so.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

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.

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

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

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

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

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.