Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money… — 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… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“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… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“In that case, the truck driver took the stand, swore to tell the truth, then lied for three hours. He said Gretchen crossed the… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
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
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“So why do these guys hate your guts?” “Because they believe strip-mining is a good thing. It provides jobs, and there are few jobs… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
