Scott Turow

“I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.”

“Postmodernism cost literature its audience.”

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

“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.”

“Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'”

“On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.”

“'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.”

“All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.”