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 famous author in a country where no one reads.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.