Lawyer Quote by Emily Gould Download Open image “I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.” — Emily Gould ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lawyer Thinking Valuable Writing
I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing. — Tom King Copy Share Image
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing. — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. — Edward Enninful Copy Share Image
Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it… — Emily Gould Copy Share
Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“And there was Sam’s charming Marxist thing of thinking that restaurants, new clothes, et cetera, were frivolities that only served to keep workers addicted… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he’d liked the part where the narrator… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share
I was a student of law as my grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer. But my passion has always been movies. — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers,… — Buck McKeon Copy Share Image
