Scott Turow Fiction Quotations

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.

My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.

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

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.

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