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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.

-John Grisham

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I Seriously Doubt I Would Ever Have

John Grisham

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.

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The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. if it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

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Woman is god’s supreme creation. only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. he realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. he hadn't mapped out a story for his family. and so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. in the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

Rather than a teaching tool, i think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. a witnessing entity? what is that? i just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

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