Doubt Quote by John Grisham

I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out.…

— Jodi Kantor

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

— David Shapiro

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

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

— John Grisham

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

— Emily Gould

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

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

— David Shapiro

I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama…

— John Grisham

For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my…

— Marcia Clark

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial…

— Vincent Bugliosi