John grisham

We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety.

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost....

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.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

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.

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...

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

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 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.