John Grisham

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

— John Grisham

“Good God, Keith." "Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance...”

— John Grisham

“A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together”

— John Grisham

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

— John Grisham

“Girls, murder trials, secret witnesses. Life was suddenly very complicated.”

— John Grisham

I love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down.

— John Grisham

“But such a cheap shot from a sibling can never be left alone.”

— John Grisham

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

— John Grisham

The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk…

— John Grisham

“Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence…

— John Grisham

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

“They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He…

— John Grisham

“Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact.”

— John Grisham

“I believe in God,” he said, truthfully but weakly. “It’s easy to say that,” she said, her words still slow and soft.…

— John Grisham

“Massive layoffs at financial firms. Banks refusing to lend while other banks were closing their doors. Congress chasing its tail. Obama blaming…

— John Grisham

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I…

— John Grisham

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk…

— John Grisham

“Trucks hauling coal that weighs a hundred tons, racing across old, twenty-ton bridges still used by school buses, and absolutely ignoring every…

— John Grisham

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I…

— John Grisham

“Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake…

— John Grisham

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of…

— John Grisham

“As Chester poured more water, she asked, “Does all drinking water come from a bottle?” For some reason this was amusing. “Oh…

— John Grisham

“There was something unfair about a system in which a little kid was brought into a courtroom and surrounded by lawyers arguing…

— John Grisham

I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I…

— John Grisham

“You count the days and watch the years go by. You tell yourself, and you believe it, that you'd rather just die.…

— John Grisham

“F. Franklin the Fourth has a job with a firm rich in heritage, money and pretentiousness, a firm vastly superior to Brodnax…

— John Grisham

“No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.”

— John Grisham

“The spirit flowed more freely and made for a more spontaneous style of worship.”

— John Grisham

“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”

— John Grisham

“SUDDEN AFFLUENCE triggers a desire for the better things in life.”

— John Grisham

“One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.”

— John Grisham

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

— John Grisham

“her mind was wonderfully uncluttered with the nagging irritations of everyday life.”

— John Grisham

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

— John Grisham

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

— John Grisham

“We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.”

— John Grisham

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

— John Grisham

“The effort to validate the handwritten will of Seth Hubbard continued to unravel late Sunday morning,”

— John Grisham

“you start repeating what’s already been said, as lawyers have a natural inclination to”

— John Grisham

That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!

— John Grisham