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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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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
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John Ray Grisham Jr
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So many book sections in newspapers and magazines used to be lively and vibrant places. Now they are gone. You just don't see many reviews anymore. I can't control that, so I don't worry about it. I just try to do what I do and write books that people find every entertaining. I don't worry about the critics.
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I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
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She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.
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I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
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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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Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.
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I didn't dare think of the future the past was still happening.
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I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
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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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