John Grisham

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit. ↗

— John Grisham

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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

#been #being #doubt #dreamed #ever

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

— John Grisham

#especially #fascinating #inmates #places #prisons

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

— John Grisham

#going #know #level #never #street

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

— John Grisham

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

— John Grisham

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

— John Grisham

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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. ↗

— John Grisham

#bashed #critics #fiction #get #going

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

#fault #going #had #i #lawyer

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

— John Grisham

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