{"author":"Scott Turow","author_id":"Scott+Turow","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["life","lawyer","me "],"id":13343,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["disappointment","love","melancholy"],"id":17082,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["good","me","good fortune "],"id":37583,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["me","people","talk "],"id":101533,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"I was willing to do it. I was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["inspirational","law","law-school"],"id":118716,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["identity"],"id":250756,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["generation-y","growing-up","time"],"id":257853,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["psychology"],"id":279319,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["education","democracy "],"id":287590,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["business","training","support "],"id":308272,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}