Scott Turow Became Quotations

De Tocqueville talked about the legalistic bent of American culture but, whatever that was, it became accentuated in the latter part of the twentieth century.

Americans became interested in what was going on in courtrooms because so much was being decided there.

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer.

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.