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You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

John Grisham

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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
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Jonesboro
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John Ray Grisham
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There are few writers who, if they publish anything, I am going to buy it: Ian McEwan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy - he was a buddy of mine and I always read his stuff. Also: Harlan Coben, Elmore Leonard, John Le Carre, but he's pushing ninety.
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
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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 looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.
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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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One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
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How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
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You need some coffee, don't you? Yes, I've only had a gallon.
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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 a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.
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And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
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My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.
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My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.
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It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
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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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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
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I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
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Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.
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My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
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She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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