Quote

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?

John Grisham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
Actor
Film Producer
Lawyer
Missionary
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
Jr.
John Ray Grisham Jr
Tell
Hungry
Something
Sick
Taught
Hell
Heaven
Poor
Jesus
Preached
Helping
Shouldn

More quotes by John Grisham

Image
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.
John Grisham
Image
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.
John Grisham
Image
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.
John Grisham
Image
The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
John Grisham
Image
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.
John Grisham
Image
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!
John Grisham
Image
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.
John Grisham
Image
I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.
John Grisham
Image
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
John Grisham
Image
I cannot write as well as some people my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
John Grisham
Image
You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.
John Grisham
Image
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
John Grisham
Image
Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.
John Grisham
Image
judge not that ye be not judged
John Grisham
Image
I am currently reading, The Broker by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
John Grisham
Image
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.
John Grisham
Image
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
John Grisham
Image
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.
John Grisham
Image
If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.
John Grisham
Image
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
John Grisham