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Scott Turow Quotes

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.

Scott Turow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1949

Topics

Funny Unique Way Minds Company Get

Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'

Jennifer Damiano

Me Control World Night Party Boy

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

John Fowles

World Create Why Write Need Common

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

Andrew Wyeth

Me Painting You Sex Personal Never

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

John Patrick Shanley

Great Money Safety Individual Where

I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception.

Amy Carlson

Good Heart Always Humans Exception

My father loved people, children and pets.

Tony Visconti

Father Children People Loved Pets

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Tracie Bennett

Singer Different Musician Which

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Trai Byers

Brother Sister Attention Need Pay

Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.

Tony Judt

Believe Better Find Say Conviction

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Romola Garai

Europe Stagnant Morally Lot Postwar

Because the designers at Baby Gap and Crew Cuts have determined it would be cute if kids dressed like their dads, seemingly every American male between 2 and 52 dresses identically.

Rumaan Alam

Cute Baby American Dressed Dresses

I used to be a model and a medical test subject, though never at the same time. And since we didn't have much money when I was a kid, I know how to fish and hunt for my supper. And I used to win awards in speech in high school, which comes in handy when I speak to 200 people at a writers' conference.

MaryJanice Davidson

Time Money Medical School People