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Writing Quotes by 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 if not, I'll…
- 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…
- I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
- My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing…
- I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is…
- 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…
- Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
- I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a…
- We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about…
- It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great…
- Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov