John Grisham Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

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

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

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

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

judge not that ye be not judged

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

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

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.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Critics should find meaningful work.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Life is short..Live to the fullest.

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

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

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

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

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

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

Some people have more guts than brains.

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.

He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.

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

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

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.

You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.

I struggle with racism every day

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

Poverty is a great equalizer

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

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

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.