Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

Scott Turow's Popular Quotes

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

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

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

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Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

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Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informe…

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People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

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Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in …

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I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

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