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The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Scott Turow
Purpose
Ambiguity
Complexity
Present
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
Scott Turow
Burden
Proof
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Scott Turow
Being
Books
Credit
Importance
Literary
Worth
The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
Scott Turow
Career
Law
Literary
School
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Scott Turow
Literature
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
Scott Turow
Legal
People
Being
Talk
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
Scott Turow
Death
Love
Shakespeare
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
Scott Turow
Life
Fiction