Quotes About Scott Turow

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

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was.

question on cross-examination to which they don't know the answer, but Stern's instinct is that there is an opportunity for the defense

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

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.

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

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.

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.