John Grisham Quotes

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• Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll…
• I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
• I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
• There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
• After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
• And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a…
• I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
• The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14…
• I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or…
• Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
• An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop…
• Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that…
• It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so…
• I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I…
• I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
• The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library…
• I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
• I struggle with racism every day
• Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a…
• Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

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