My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Cuando duermes, engañas al sistema. El tiempo del sueño te pertenece a ti y no al Estado.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The Senator did not know who owned the jet, nor had he ever met Mr. Trudeau, which in most cultures would seem odd since Rudd had taken so much money from the man. But in Washington, money arrives through a myriad of strange and nebulous conduits. Often those taking it have only a vague idea of where it's coming from;… — John Grisham Copy Share
“What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski?” — John Grisham Copy Share
“In that case, the truck driver took the stand, swore to tell the truth, then lied for three hours. He said Gretchen crossed the center line and caused the wreck, made it sound as though she was trying to kill herself. The coal companies are clever and they never send down one truck at a time. They travel in pairs,… — John Grisham Copy Share
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
