John Grisham Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“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.”

“Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.”

“And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.”

“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.”

“I don't want to force my politics on my readers.”

“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.”