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Scott Turow Quotes

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

Scott Turow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love People Me Law Behave Criminal

It's funny: I've always had the analogy of a snow globe, that Hollywood is a snow globe. No, it's true. If you shake it up, you can look at it and really enjoy it. But don't ever go in. Don't ever buy into it and be like, 'I deserve all of this!' because it can go away at any time, so just have a lot of fun.

John Krasinski

Funny Snow Time Fun Enjoy Look

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Stephen Colbert

Perception Facts Matter Certainty

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Truman Capote

Beginning End Doing Be True True

My dad left when I was young. I didn't have a dad. I'm part of that divorced generation and didn't want to do that to my kids, so I took a year off and became a full-time dad, changed diapers and all that while my wife worked.

Tom King

Wife Generation Year Young Want Off

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Tom Peters

Power Relationships Understand

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

Robbie Keane

Growing Up World Doing Back Growing

'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.

Ruth Reichl

Life Love People Me Story Better

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

Mick Foley

Me Stage Joke Bother Bomb Bombing

I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.

Miranda Cosgrove

Night Hurt Too Much Sometimes Text

My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.

Christina Hendricks

Mother Beautiful Mom Thought Lose

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Chuck Palahniuk

People Down Say Write Wild Up

Like most authors, I also love to read.

Aprilynne Pike

Love Like Read Most Authors Also