Scott Turow Law Quotations

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

Criminal law in particular does indeed present human beings in extremis. You're always dealing with definitions of evil.

It's all words, that's all the law is,

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

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

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.