John Grisham Quotes

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

I follow only one rule in my writing, and that is to be interesting. If the story is interesting to you, the writer, then it will probably be interesting to somebody else.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs.

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

You need interesting content that entertains or informs - preferably both. You want people to look forward to your posts and come back for more. People want to follow you. They want to hear your words and see your vision.

I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.