Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have… — 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
