Quotes from John Grisham

Critics should find meaningful work.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

Life is short..Live to the fullest..

A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

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.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here. -Reggie Love

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.