Book Quote by Ben Fountain

I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly - for about…

— Ben Fountain

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

— John Grisham

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law…

— Susan Orlean

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to…

— Elizabeth Strout

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

— Jasper Fforde

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed…

— Tim Howard

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

— Scott Turow

I worked my way through law school.

— Brian Sandoval

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

I was a business major, then went to law school, and I practiced a few years.

— Shannon Bream

I went to law school after college.

— Kevin Heffernan

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

— David Dinkins