John Grisham Quotes
Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.
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.
The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
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
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.
I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
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.
My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.
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.
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.
I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
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.
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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.
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.
That's sounds right. Another $5, 000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.
life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
Good God, Keith.""Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance...
I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.
Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!
The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall-
... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.
Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Marshall Kofer had learned to listen, at least to his daughter".
No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.