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I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.

John Grisham

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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
Actor
Film Producer
Lawyer
Missionary
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
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John Ray Grisham Jr
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Breakfast
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I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.
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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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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
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The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
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I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
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In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say anything nice about you.
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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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She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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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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And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!
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There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
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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 want to force my politics on my readers.
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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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