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I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

- Scott Turow
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I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash.

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

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or larger size, New York and Chicago being the most obvious examples.

All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy who everybody in the family regarded as disagreeable at best. But I loved him intensely. He was wonderful to me.

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks.

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

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I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.