Top 100 Grisham Quotes
#2. I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.
Francis Ford Coppola
#3. A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
Charlotte Rampling
#4. Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.
David Foster Wallace
#5. Just started the new John Grisham book, "The Litigators" and so far it's a pretty good story.
I've always been a John Grisham fan and have read almost everything he has written with the exception of maybe only 2 books.
John Grisham
#6. Ladies and Gentlemen, King of the Stupid Question: Todd Grisham!
John Cena
#7. If John Grisham, Harper Lee, and Larry the Cable Guy were penned up in a remote cabin for a weekend with nothing but good bourbon, fine wine, and a couple of cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, something like Common Pleas (A Tale of Whoa!) might result...
J. Randolph Cresenzo
#8. Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel.
Dave Barry
#9. At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.
Danielle Steel
#10. Aside from John Grisham, there isn't really anybody besides Tess that I've truly gotten into. But, I do like them. When I have more time to read, I will absolutely look for some more authors. It's just about finding a world and a character that you're intrigued by.
Sasha Alexander
#11. I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow
Simone Elkeles
#12. This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.
James Patterson
#13. John (Grisham) was really helpful keeping me on track, not wandering off into subplots, making sure I didn't spill the beans too early, all kinds of nitty-gritty things that you've gotta have under control if you're going to write a good thriller.
Tony Vanderwarker
#14. I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.
Hillary Clinton
#15. John Grisham exhaled, feeling his breath leave his body as he did, like his wife's yoga instructor had taught him to do that one time. He never went back to that yoga instructor, but he still thought about that session sometimes.
B.J. Novak
#16. I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt.
Simon Cowell
#17. I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
Gary Locke
#18. 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
#19. I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
John Grisham
#20. I was shameless in my supermarket-shelf mass-market taste. I loved King, Evanovich, Grisham and Brown. I won't lie; the oficial-looking filing cabinet in the corner is actually stuffed full of my paperbacks.
Molly Harper
#21. I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.
John Grisham
#22. Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up.
John Grisham
#23. Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
John Grisham
#24. His book, The Dreams of Ada, was published by Viking in April 1987 and was greatly anticipated by the town.
John Grisham
#25. We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.
John Grisham
#26. Litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.
John Grisham
#27. Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.
John Grisham
#28. son of a freed slave who took possession of
John Grisham
#29. At times he thinks like a terrorist, then he cries like a little child.
- Reggie Love
John Grisham
#30. No, thanks. They won't go away. You take care of Ricky and Mom, and me and the lawyer'll take care of the FBI.
John Grisham
#31. I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
John Grisham
#32. Paul's story to have a happier ending - for ourselves
John Grisham
#34. Next, a young black kid was brought in and his handcuffs
John Grisham
#35. Well, in my world, our world, there are too many guns and too many bad things happen because of them." Pippin,
John Grisham
#36. We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them.
John Grisham
#37. She was drained from the shock and fear of looking at the emotional wreckage of real humans, desperate people with little hope and looking to her for help.
John Grisham
#38. I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.
John Grisham
#39. impulsively as his shoulders sagged. "Reputation,
John Grisham
#40. He sketches a world of Darwinian struggle where all the savages wear three-piece suits.
Stephen King
#41. In his haste to get his client on and off the stand with as little damage as possible, Barney neglected to rebut most of the allegations from the state's witnesses. Ron could have explained his "dream confession" to Rogers and Featherstone the night after his arrest.
John Grisham
#42. The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.
John Grisham
#43. 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
#44. It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.
John Grisham
#45. Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.
John Grisham
#46. He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.
John Grisham
#47. let's get away from him, go somewhere else.' I
John Grisham
#48. I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.
John Grisham
#50. 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
#52. I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
John Grisham
#53. 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
#54. Love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of
your better future
John Grisham
#55. Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.
John Grisham
#56. She nodded again, and took a deep breath. A small tear managed to find its way through the swelling and dropped onto her left cheek. He
John Grisham
#57. Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?
John Grisham
#58. and exactly twenty-one feet from the ground. From there it fell about nine feet, culminating in a perfect hangman's knot, one that Seth had undoubtedly worked on for some time. The noose was straight from the textbook with thirteen
John Grisham
#59. If the video camera was loaded with a tape, it was never seen. If Detective Smith made a report of the interview, it was never produced in the legal proceedings that followed.
John Grisham
#60. He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.
John Grisham
#61. Goethe said, "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." The same holds true for demons. If you look for evil, you will find it.
Jack Grisham
#62. if you don't think about death, you don't appreciate life.
John Grisham
#63. Purvis. This is my associate, Samantha Kofer. We've been hired to get our client out of jail. Snowden took a step back as Mattie pressed ahead. Samantha, treading water, wasn't sure what to do, so
John Grisham
#64. Smithsonian is actually a group of nineteen different museums and a zoo,
John Grisham
#65. in Italian. For the first time in his new home, Rick admitted to himself that learning a few words was not a bad idea. In fact, it was a great idea if he had any hope of scoring points with the girls.
John Grisham
#66. He hadn't hit her in several years, but when you've been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woman.
John Grisham
#67. I don't trust judges. Perhaps it's the nature of my profession. I like knockouts, not decisions.
John Grisham
#68. It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.
John Grisham
#69. How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
John Grisham
#70. Strippers. Get them a job, then an apartment, buy some clothes, feed them nice dinners, and then they get culture and start making demands. They were an expensive habit, but one he could not break.
John Grisham
#71. The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.
John Grisham
#73. In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.
John Grisham
#74. (He) paused for a second and once more marveled at the speed with which one person's private business could be so thoroughly kicked around the neighborhood.
John Grisham
#75. A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
John Grisham
#76. The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.
John Grisham
#77. The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.
John Grisham
#78. The one's who want to make a difference, the people who can change the world for the better, are laughed out of the game by the players.
Joshua Grisham
#79. Some of our clients have not been saints, but no lawyer can dictate morals to his client.
John Grisham
#80. Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
John Grisham
#81. confidant, paralegal, caddie, and only friend. I earned
John Grisham
#82. He was a quiet man, not lonely and not shy, but cerebral and serious.
John Grisham
#83. He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.
John Grisham
#85. Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.
John Grisham
#86. Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
John Grisham
#87. I'm here to tell you, separate was never equal.
John Grisham
#88. not admit this. For him and his Chancery Court, a major trial was a nasty divorce
John Grisham
#89. Some of his transactions involved Ada policemen, specifically one Dennis Corvin, whom Gore described as a primary supplier
John Grisham
#90. This woman has had the hell beaten out of her.
John Grisham
#92. Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?
John Grisham
#93. 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.
John Grisham
#94. The potluck started the way most potlucks do, with a mad dash to the table by the starving and the obese, quickly
Austin Grisham
#95. And it would be over in a flash. The state police are providing
John Grisham
#96. My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture.
John Grisham
#97. It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
John Grisham
#98. Why bother with a trial? If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.
John Grisham
#99. He made a mistake, one that would send him to death row and eventually cost him his freedom for life.
John Grisham
#100. Every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism.
John Grisham
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