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Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have. (John Grisham)
I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. View quote
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A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard. View quote
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There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get. View quote
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Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door. View quote
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I don't want to force my politics on my readers. View quote
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Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit. View quote
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Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. View quote
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I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally. (John Grisham)
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. View quote
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I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour. View quote
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. View quote
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Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. View quote
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