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...good stories. 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for John Grisham | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...think so, because if I had more time, I wouldn't use it. I'd wait until the last three months and write the book. I learned how to procrastinate in law school, I perfected it as I practiced law, and now I am an expert. I've written stuff when I had plenty of time, and it wasn't very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for John Grisham | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

Would you ever write about the case in Mississippi involving Dickie Scruggs? -Brian Hansen, Baton Rouge, La.It is really strange, because The Appeal-which comes out in two weeks-is about politics and sleazy legal stuff in Mississippi. The timing could not be worse. I would not write about those guys because I know all of them and I would never go there. Honestly, truth is far stranger than fiction. Nobody would have believed The Innocent Man if I had written it as a novel. And if I wrote the story that I think is unfolding down there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for John Grisham | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...each other, so they use Kobe beef and truffles, but it can't be improved upon. All these efforts are doomed to folly." Which, at least, is something about burgers I agree with him on. After all, if we could make ground beef better by adding stuff, we'd be driving though Meat Loaf Kings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flipping for Burgers | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

Bill Clinton spent years rebranding himself as a global rock star, Hillary Clinton as the workhorse Senator who knew her stuff. She had the money, the machine and the momentum, until all of a sudden she didn't. There was Barack Obama, on his postpartisan pedestal, a transformational figure who somehow made hope sound hip, raised tons of cash, got kids to actually show up and vote, had red-state Democrats lining up to endorse him. This was not the fight the Clintons had trained for. Something had to change, and quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaming Up | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

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