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I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

John Grisham

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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
Actor
Film Producer
Lawyer
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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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In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
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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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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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If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.
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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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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.
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I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
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I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.
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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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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.
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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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You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.
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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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