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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 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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A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
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If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.
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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 didn't dare think of the future the past was still happening.
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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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In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
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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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Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
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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 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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Critics should find meaningful work.
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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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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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When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
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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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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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Poverty is a great equalizer
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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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