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John Grisham
American
Writer
Born:
Feb 8
,
1955
Books
Good
People
Time
Writing
You
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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
You
Money
Real Estate
Lawyer
Down
Books
Wills
About
Guys
Steal
Lawyers
Write
Take
Nobody
Stuff
Read
Does
Real
Off
Sell
Want
Estate
Wants
Interesting
Who
Fun
Fun Stuff
Street
Honest
Loans
Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
John Grisham
Writing
Worth
Job
Difficult
Worth It
Had
Most
Still
Ever
Difficult Job
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.
John Grisham
Time
Me
Natural
People
Lawyer
Big
Fighting
Way
Corporations
Guy
Only
Also
Him
Clients
Am
Big Corporations
Were
Years
American
Represent
Short
Short Time
Little
Molded
Natural Thing
Little People
American Way
Who
Thing
Pull
There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption.
John Grisham
Good
Corruption
Money
Characters
Colorful
Development
Lot
Many
Florida
My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.
John Grisham
Work
People
Somebody
Trouble
Pay
Difficult
Bono
Way
Say
Out
Folks
Never
Most
Because
Clients
Always
Got
Were
Lot
Very
Afford
Pro
Poor
Turned
Working
Paid
Help
Who
Whole
Found
Start
Needed
That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!
John Grisham
Best
Writing
Law
Practice
Way
Best Way
About
Having
Courtroom
I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.
John Grisham
Time
Word
First
Before
Spend
Outlining
Write
Lot
There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.
John Grisham
Words
Three
Types
Nobody
Category
Know
Knows
Should
Use
Third
Most men cannot write good sex. I tried one time years ago and showed it to my wife, and she felt like laughing.
John Grisham
Time
Good
Wife
Sex
Men
Laughing
One Time
Tried
Write
Like
Most
She
Felt
Years
Years Ago
Cannot
I love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down.
John Grisham
Love
Thoughts
Together
People
Down
Intricate
Find
Put
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
Death
You
People
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Penalty
Favor
Lock
Locking
Out
Bad
Security
Bad Ones
Never
Rethink
Gotta
Death Penalty
Escape
Get
Maximum
Where
Away
Units
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
John Grisham
Types
Educated
Prisons
Places
White-Collar
Fascinating
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
John Grisham
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Lesson
Critics
Write
Long Time Ago
Learned
Get
Going
Fiction
Popular
Bashed
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.
John Grisham
Life
Work
Hate
People
Three
Find
Critics
Write
Simpler
Period
Read
Learned
Least
Nasty
Reviewers
Reviews
Them
Meaningful
Much
Should
Ignoring
Who
Two
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
Seriously
Lawyer
First
Doubt
Trial
Would
Dreamed
Only
Writer
Never
Had
Written
Wrote
Witnessing
Been
Being
After
Story
Ever
I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
John Grisham
Politics
Force
Readers
Want
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
John Grisham
Law
Problems
Enjoy
Honestly
Other
Sold
Books
Say
Out
About
Give
Rather
Magnifying
Miss
Messages
Mixed
Hand
Off
Office
May
While
Them
Working
Profession
Watching
When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.
John Grisham
Work
You
Walk
Through
Never
Know
Going
Door
Your
Street
Level
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
You
Pulpit
Alienate
One Thing
About
Writer
Readers
Getting
Want
Anything
Soapbox
Really
Thing
Watch
I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.
John Grisham
Christian
Books
Those
Out
Come
Occasionally
Beliefs
My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.
John Grisham
Love
Writing
Books
Say
Only
Stuck
Since
Name
Became
Brand
Plan
Keep
Ever
Start
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.
John Grisham
Myself
Great
Me
Book
Picture
Country
Big
Beneath
Marked
Say
Recognises
John
John Grisham
No-One
Clearly
Reads
Author
Big Picture
Quite
Often
Famous
Where
Paying
Standing
Credit
Card
Credit Card
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
Lawyer
Prison
Own
Several
Visited
My Own
Through
Misfortune
Had
Occasionally
Clients
Years
Going
Them
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.
John Grisham
Death
Best
Good
Sometimes
Books
Penalty
Fraud
Wrap
Tackle
Good Story
Message
Around
Insurance
Issue
Death Penalty
Story
Litigation
Tobacco
Homelessness
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
John Grisham
Writing
Longing
Mine
Dream
Write
Student
Sure
How
Childhood
Childhood Dream
Recall
Start
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
John Grisham
Time
Me
Writing
Made
Free
Spend
About
Something
Free Time
Hours
Still
Large
Desk
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