John Grisham Quotes

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• In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

  John Grisham

  Voice, Stories, Heard

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• You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

  John Grisham

  Yesterday, Live Your Life, Today

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• Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

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  Reading, Successful, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

  John Grisham

  Jesus, Sick, Heaven

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• It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

  John Grisham

  Lying, Believe, People

  John Grisham (1999). “The client: the street lawyer”

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• Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

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  Law, People, World

  John Grisham (1999). “The client: the street lawyer”

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• When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

  John Grisham

  Lying, Missing, Obvious

  Twitter post from Jul 12, 2016

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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.

  John Grisham

  Pages Turning, Issues, Goal

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• Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

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  Live Your Life, Want, Way

  John Grisham’s graduation speech at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

  John Grisham

  Stupid, Tough, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jul 09, 2016

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• 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

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• Some people have more guts than brains.

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  Courage, People, Brain

  John Grisham (1996). “The Rainmaker”, Dell

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• Stephen King reached out to me twenty-five years ago and taught me some valuable lessons. In return, I've tried to be generous with my time over the years with young writers. I've given them my email and said if you need someone to talk to, I've been through it.

  John Grisham

  Valuable, Generous

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

  John Grisham

  Doors, Levels, Walks

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

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• 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

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• I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

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  Jam, Traffic, Traffic Jam

  John Grisham (2011). “Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber”, p.299, Dell

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• I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

  John Grisham

  Inspirational, Real, Fiction

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• I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.

  John Grisham

  Fighting, Who I Am, Years

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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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• Critics should find meaningful work.

  John Grisham

  Meaningful, Should, Critics

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• Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

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  Recovery, Years, Addiction

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2016

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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.

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  Book, Writing, Numbers

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• I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

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  Confidence, Fear, Being Alone

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2016

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• judge not that ye be not judged

  John Grisham

  Bible, Jesus, Judging

  John Grisham (2004). “The Last Juror”, Doubleday Books

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