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Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
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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There are few writers who, if they publish anything, I am going to buy it: Ian McEwan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy - he was a buddy of mine and I always read his stuff. Also: Harlan Coben, Elmore Leonard, John Le Carre, but he's pushing ninety.
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Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
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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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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
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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
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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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A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
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How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
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Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.
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I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
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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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Life is short..Live to the fullest.
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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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You need some coffee, don't you? Yes, I've only had a gallon.
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When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.
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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
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Critics should find meaningful work.
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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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