I’ve written 17 novels, and I’ve found out that fiction can’t keep up with real life.
I struggle with racism every day.
I was a lawyer for 10 years – a short time, but it molded me into who I am.
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.
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.
I’m being followed so much I’m causing traffic jams.
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.
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.
Michael Harvey should be read by all.
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’m a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.
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.
I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
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.
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.
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.
Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
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.