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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?
John Grisham
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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
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John Ray Grisham Jr
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Critics should find meaningful work.
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How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
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A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
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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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She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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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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In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say anything nice about you.
John Grisham
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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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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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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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.
John Grisham
judge not that ye be not judged
John Grisham
I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
John Grisham
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'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.
John Grisham
And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!
John Grisham
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
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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.
John Grisham
There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
John Grisham
I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
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