Latest Scott Turow Quotes from Interviews

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• I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again.

  Scott Turow

  Book, Hard Times, Identity

  Source: www.pbs.org

• People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.

  Scott Turow

  Believe, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

  Scott Turow

  War, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org