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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
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
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John Ray Grisham Jr
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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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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
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I still enjoy the process of writing. If I ever feel like I am going through the motions because I can sell anything at this level, I hope that somebody, somewhere who I trust will tell me to take a break and stop because it's sounding old. But so far, I don't feel like I'm boring anyone.
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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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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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Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.
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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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I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
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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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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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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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I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.
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Life is short..Live to the fullest.
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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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When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
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I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.
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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'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
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