John Grisham Quotes
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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 other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
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I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.
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Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.
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The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
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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 much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
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Stephen King told me a long time ago, when he gave me some advice about the movies. He said to take the money up front and expect it to be something different than the book and if you don't like that don't deal with Hollywood. But if you take the money, shut up and don't criticize the film because you sold it. The movie doesn't change a word of the book.
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I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.
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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 at.
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It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.
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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 little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.
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Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
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I still enjoy the process of writing. If I ever feel like I am going through the motions because I can sell anything at this level, I hope that somebody, somewhere who I trust will tell me to take a break and stop because it's sounding old. But so far, I don't feel like I'm boring anyone.
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You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.
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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 be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.
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I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.
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Some people have more guts than brains.
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If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.
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When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.
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I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
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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.
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I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
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She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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The two mistakes that come to mind are people who introduce a flood of characters in the first few pages. Where the reader has to stop and get out a flow chart and has to figure out who is who. And you just can't do that - introduce the first four generations of a character's family in the first chapter. You can introduce four or five characters at the most in the first chapter. Another mistake is to use big words that are not normally used in conversation to try to impress folks with your vocabulary.
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How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
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The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.
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Poverty is a great equalizer
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I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
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A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
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I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.
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You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
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