- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
- Executed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Executing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020