American - Writer | February 8, 1955 -
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
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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.
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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.
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I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
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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.
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Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
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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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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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Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
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Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.
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In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard.
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