John Grisham Quotes

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.
John Grisham

Change, Great, Serious

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
John Grisham

Life, Work, Hate

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.
John Grisham

Money, Fun, Real

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
John Grisham

Getting, Writer, Watch

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.
John Grisham

Doubt, After, Story

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
John Grisham

Morning, Bit, Wake

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
John Grisham

Educated, Places, Types

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.
John Grisham

Work, Through, Door

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.
John Grisham

Book, Same, Message

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.
John Grisham

Death, Enough, Wrong

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
John Grisham

Time, Him, Short

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
John Grisham

Work, Time, Happen

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
John Grisham

After, Around, Playing

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
John Grisham

Politics, Force, Readers

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
John Grisham

Rose, Hour, Earned

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
John Grisham

Time, Long, Learned

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.
John Grisham

Christian, Books, Beliefs

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.
John Grisham

Future, Books, Sell

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
John Grisham

Good, Great, Writing

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
John Grisham

Year, Guy, Couple

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
John Grisham

Time, Writing, Free

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
John Grisham

Hard, Makes, Fair

We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety.
John Grisham

Private, Notoriety, Extremely

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
John Grisham

Writing, Start, Dream

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
John Grisham

Job, Writing, Difficult

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 8, 1955

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