John Grisham Quotes

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.

Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.

I feel like I have a unique voice that's true and authentic, and we need more of that. If I can inspire more of that, I need to do that in as many places as possible.

Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

If I won't be myself, who will?

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.