Quote by John Grisham
I cant change overnight into a serious literary author. You cant c

I cant change overnight into a serious literary author. You cant compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. – John Grisham

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I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work. – John Grisham

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work
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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 the money and take off. Thats the fun stuff. – John Grisham

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Ive had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. Ive been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I dont get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best. – John Grisham

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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know thats not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. – Hugh Mackay

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I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming. – Michael Phelps

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Change

I dont think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. Its just maturity. Ive become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence. – Ricky Williams

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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. – Elizabeth Gaskell

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I had an amazing childhood. – Abbie Cornish

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I like progress but I hate change. – Jon Bon Jovi

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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. – Aeschylus

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