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
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We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.
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We didn't want to leave. You feel guilty because you can hop on a plane and come back home where everything works and everything is standing,
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We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.
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Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also want to know what's going on and won't hesitate to ask questions.
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I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.
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We want to raise all we can and then take the next two years to spend all of it, ... Hopefully then we'll be out of business and there'll be no more hurricanes.