Calico Joe John Grisham Quotes & Sayings

You're saying one day I'll be a butterfly," he says skeptically. I look up. "I'm saying you've always been one. — Lindy Zart

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be. — Jeff Abbott

You can judge a man by the books in his library. — Mark Skousen

My buddies and I wrote letters to hundreds of pofessional players, asking for autographed photos. Occasionally one responded, and to get a photo in th email was a reason to strut. — John Grisham

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world. — Damien Chazelle

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television. — William Lashner

After a leisurely slide into second, Joe bounced to his feet, looked at Marichal, shrugged, smiled, and spread his arms as if to say, You throw at me, I'll make you pay. — John Grisham

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own. — Fulton J. Sheen

A slap or a fat check is what it takes if you want to see all the passions that go beating about behind a face take a sudden tack. It's as beautiful as watching a sailing ship maneuvering in a stormy sea. The whole person keels over in the changed wind. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing. — Brom

Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. — Ellen Raskin

There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire. — John Scalzi

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason. — John Paul DeJoria

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new. — Michael Leunig

He who finds not opposition from [sin] ... is at peace with it, not dying to it. — John Owen