John Grisham Quotes
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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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There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.
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I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
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Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.
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I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.
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Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
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We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.
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I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
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We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety.
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I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
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Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.
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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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I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.
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Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
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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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I hate prologues because they're kind of gimmicks to suck you in.
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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.
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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.