John Grisham
John Grisham
John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
home money opposed overhead raise stuff
I don't know how much we'll end up raising. Hopefully, we'll have $10 million. ... All the money we raise will go into somebody's home as opposed to going into overhead and stuff like that.
people adequate criminals
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.
book kids 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.
want force reader
I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
trials judgment fairs
There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
years fiction six
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
new-york people innocence
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.
breakfast hours
I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
teacher book school
The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.
jobs writing difficult
Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
teaching games play
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.
doubt stories trials
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.
book writing numbers
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.
coffee needs gallons
You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.