a horse eatin’ corn,” Butch piled on instantly. Raymond

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

— John Grisham

“So why do these guys hate your guts?” “Because they believe strip-mining is a good thing. It provides jobs, and there are few jobs…

— John Grisham

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are…

— John Grisham

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social…

— John Grisham

In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say…

— John Grisham

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

— John Grisham

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

— John Grisham

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

— John Grisham

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit…

— John Grisham

I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

— John Grisham

“In that case, the truck driver took the stand, swore to tell the truth, then lied for three hours. He said Gretchen crossed the…

— John Grisham

“What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she…

— John Grisham

“The Senator did not know who owned the jet, nor had he ever met Mr. Trudeau, which in most cultures would seem odd since…

— John Grisham

“Cuando duermes, engañas al sistema. El tiempo del sueño te pertenece a ti y no al Estado.”

— John Grisham

“In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in…

— John Grisham