If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough. John Grisham More Quotes by John Grisham More Quotes From 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. John Grisham writing kids book We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed. John Grisham law school firsts It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them. John Grisham teaching games play I don't want to force my politics on my readers. John Grisham force reader want I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them. John Grisham law book hands I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books. John Grisham belief christian book It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting. John Grisham avoiding ends waiting I still enjoy the process of writing. If I ever feel like I am going through the motions because I can sell anything at this level, I hope that somebody, somewhere who I trust will tell me to take a break and stop because it's sounding old. But so far, I don't feel like I'm boring anyone. John Grisham boring break writing 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 nice say-anything book You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon. John Grisham gallons coffee needs How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals? John Grisham sanctity-of-marriage sanctity homosexual After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. John Grisham six fiction years I did get tired of hearing that criticism years ago. That is not a compliment. Being labeled a "beach read" is a put-down. So, I did deliberately set out to write a book, Camino Island, that would be very entertaining and compulsively readable and we published it on June 6 in time for summer vacation, hoping that people would buy it and take it to the beach. John Grisham summer beach book 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 signatures blue book 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 adequate criminals people And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. John Grisham innocence new-york people 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 hate writing meaningful My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. John Grisham lawyer decision father I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know. John Grisham stupid law years 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 orange apples genius
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