352 Quotes by John Grisham

This is a game for me, and you have to admit I play it rather well.

I’m in shock now. I’m not believing this, Mitch. This is like a bad dream, only much worse.” “And this is only the beginning.

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.

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.

A hundred years earlier, in Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement. In 1897, the Court, in Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, however slight. A.

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family,” Joel said.

SUDDEN AFFLUENCE triggers a desire for the better things in life.

Rejection comes easy, because you learn quickly that the worst thing that can happen is to hear the word “no.