“I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.”
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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.
Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
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. That's the fun stuff.