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• My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

  John Grisham

  Book, Kids, Naughty

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• 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

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• 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

  Girl, Attachment, Mind

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• The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

  John Grisham

  Church, Library, Cards

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

  John Grisham

  White, Inmates, Prison

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• 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

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• It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

  John Grisham

  Waiting, Ends, Avoiding

  John Grisham (2010). “Ford County”, p.248, Random House

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• 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

  People, Locks, Favors

  "Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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• Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

  John Grisham

  Men, Innocent Man, Serial Killer

  John Grisham (2010). “The Confession”, p.104, Random House

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• Life is short..Live to the fullest.

  John Grisham

  Life Is Short, Life Is, Live To The Fullest

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• 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

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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, Stories, Trials

  John Grisham. Biography, www.jgrisham.com.

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• Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.

  John Grisham

  Home, Order, Mississippi Delta

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• How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

  John Grisham

  Sanctity Of Marriage, Sanctity, Homosexual

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• Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

  John Grisham

  Fun, Sleep, Years

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2016

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• 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

  Country, Book, Cards

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• I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

  John Grisham

  Men, Circumstances

  John Grisham (2012). “The Racketeer”, p.88, Dell

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• 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.

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  Teaching, Games, Play

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

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  Writing, Hours, Made

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• 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

  People, Criminals, Adequate

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

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  Jobs, Writing, Difficult

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Nice, Book, Say Anything

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Fun, Regret, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are few writers who, if they publish anything, I am going to buy it: Ian McEwan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy - he was a buddy of mine and I always read his stuff. Also: Harlan Coben, Elmore Leonard, John Le Carre, but he's pushing ninety.

  John Grisham

  Publish, Buddy

  Source: therumpus.net

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