Scott Turow Quotes

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

You learn from everything.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Histories make men wise.

Experience can be a great teacher.

Ultimately, everyone's life is complex, and it's good to show that.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Everyone has a story.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.