Scott Turow Quotes

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I prefer writing originals.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

I don't study; I create.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.