I can’t change overnight into a serious literary author. You can’t compare apples to oranges. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud — John Ray Grisham Jr.
I grew up in a very small, close-knit, southern baptist family, where everything was off-limits. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly — John Ray Grisham Jr.
I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised — John Ray Grisham Jr.
And that’s the mission of the innocence project in new york, is to exonerate people — John Ray Grisham Jr.
After I’d been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
When you work at street level you never know who’s going to walk through your door. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
We’ve sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of — John Ray Grisham Jr.
We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I’ve still got lots of stories — John Ray Grisham Jr.
The deep south has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
Right from the start, I loved the works of mark twain. Every time I read about — John Ray Grisham Jr.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
My mum was never too keen on tv, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. — John Ray Grisham Jr.
It’s hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good i — John Ray Grisham Jr.
I’m not in favor of the death penalty. But I’m in favor of locking these people — John Ray Grisham Jr.
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. — John Ray Grisham Jr.