I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening. John Grisham More Quotes by John Grisham More Quotes From John Grisham I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything. John Grisham circumstances men I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour. John Grisham dollars nurse rose Critics should find meaningful work. John Grisham critics should meaningful Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her. John Grisham attachment girl mind Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. John Grisham inmates prison white Life is short..Live to the fullest. John Grisham live-to-the-fullest life-is-short life-is Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. John Grisham hours made writing There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get. John Grisham fair-trial judgment trials Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. John Grisham law people world I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. John Grisham locks favors people 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 writing book thinking I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. John Grisham regret college fun 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. John Grisham speak said thinking Some people have more guts than brains. John Grisham courage brain people judge not that ye be not judged John Grisham judging bible jesus Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. John Grisham cards country book You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war. John Grisham ready men war I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics. John Grisham writing long fiction The two mistakes that come to mind are people who introduce a flood of characters in the first few pages. Where the reader has to stop and get out a flow chart and has to figure out who is who. And you just can't do that - introduce the first four generations of a character's family in the first chapter. You can introduce four or five characters at the most in the first chapter. Another mistake is to use big words that are not normally used in conversation to try to impress folks with your vocabulary. John Grisham mistake character people 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. John Grisham writing numbers book
