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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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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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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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There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
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How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
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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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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 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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Life is short..Live to the fullest.
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Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?
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I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
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Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.
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I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
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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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