“Cuando duermes, engañas al sistema. El tiempo del sueño te pertenece a ti y no al Estado.”
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
John Ray Grisham es un escritor estadounidense conocido por sus relatos judiciales de suspenso, de cuyas obras se han vendido más de 250 millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. En el pasado se dedicó a la abogacía y a la política, figurando en las filas demócratas. Wikipedia
“Cuando duermes, engañas al sistema. El tiempo del sueño te pertenece a ti y no al Estado.”
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
Fuente: The Testament
“I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm.”
Fuente: The Rainmaker
“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”
Fuente: The Street Lawyer
“Life is short.. Live to the fullest..”
Fuente: The Runaway Jury
“Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.”
Fuente: The Rainmaker
“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”
Fuente: The Rainmaker
“How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?”
Fuente: The Appeal
“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
Fuente: The Testament
“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
Fuente: The Testament
“I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.”
Fuente: A Painted House
Fuente: Attorney Robbie Flak speaking of the (fictional) Governor of Texas, The Confession, Ch. 12 (2010)
“You need some coffee, don't you?"
"Yes, I've only had a gallon.”
Fuente: The Confession
“The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.”
Fuente: The Rainmaker
“The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.”
Fuente: The Appeal
Interview, Guardian, Friday 25 November 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/nov/25/john-grisham-life-in-writing
John Grisham, The Last Juror: A Novel, p. 357 (Author's Note) (2004)
Fuente: [Grisham, John, 2004, The Last Juror, BCA, 357 (Author's Note), 0-385-51043-8]