John Grisham Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Dream, Writing, Childhood

• 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

  Fun, Real, Book

• An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.

  John Grisham

  Writing, Littles, Pages

• 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

  Meaningful, Hate, Writing

• 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

  Book, Writing, Kids

• 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

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• 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

  Book, Writing, Numbers

• My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Names

  "A life in writing: John Grisham". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2011.

• One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

  John Grisham

  Writing, Let Me, Quotations

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  John Grisham

  Writing, Hours, Made

• 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

  Writing, People, Stories

  1994 In the Independent on Sunday, 5 Jun.

• The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

  John Grisham

  Writing, People, Fiction

• 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

  Writing, Boring, Break

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  John Grisham

  Jobs, Writing, Difficult

  "Boxers, Briefs and Books" by John Grisham, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2010.

• 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

  Source: therumpus.net

• So many book sections in newspapers and magazines used to be lively and vibrant places. Now they are gone. You just don't see many reviews anymore. I can't control that, so I don't worry about it. I just try to do what I do and write books that people find every entertaining. I don't worry about the critics.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Worry

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

• I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk a lot about publishing, bookselling, and book writing. He's been around for ten years longer than me and was a bestseller right off the bat. And he's seen and done everything. It's rare to be with somebody who has been through all of that.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

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