Scott Turow Quotes

The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.

I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

All love comes from the family.

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

My brother and I are best friends.

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.