#out

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. ↗

— John Grisham

#bad #death #death penalty #else #escape

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best. ↗

— John Grisham

#adapted #almost #away #been #being

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #every #every time #go #got

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

#books #does #down #estate #fun

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. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

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

— John Grisham

#desk #free #free time #hours #large

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #chewed #fun #got #i

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. ↗

— Matt Groening

#comic strips #daily #going #i #i think

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#mistakes #more #often #out #public

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#mistakes #more #often #out #public