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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
Missionary
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Politician
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
Jr.
John Ray Grisham Jr
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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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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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How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
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You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.
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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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I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
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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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The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
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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've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
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You need some coffee, don't you? Yes, I've only had a gallon.
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I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
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I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.
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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
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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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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.
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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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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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Life is short..Live to the fullest.
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