I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. T...
Before a jury. It takes time: time to
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.
Hubbard obtained the land from Sylvester’s widow.
He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral.
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 fam...
Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.
Life is short..Live to the fullest..
I can feel the competition here, very much like the first few weeks of law school when we were terribly concerned with each other's initial progress. I nod at a few acquaintances, silently hoping they...
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.
Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process....
Life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
Fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid – just don’t show it.
You’re old. You’re senile. You’re too calm about this. Something must be wrong…Wonderful. I’ll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room.
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
There’s an old adage in bad trial lawyering that when you don’t have the facts, do a lot of yelling.
The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.
Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.