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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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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
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John Ray Grisham
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John Ray Grisham Jr
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I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
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There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
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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 don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
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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.
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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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Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
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The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
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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.
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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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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
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I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.
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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
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Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.
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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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I didn't dare think of the future the past was still happening.
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She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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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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