Camino Island Quotes

“I’ve never understood people who grind through a book they don’t really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?"
"Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Plans—nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“If you’re gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“her mind was wonderfully uncluttered with the nagging irritations of everyday life.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“I doubt it. I’ll give any book a hundred pages, and if by then the writer can’t hold my attention I’ll put it away. There are too many good books I want to read to waste time with a bad one.” ​”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“She was a good swimmer but we never used life jackets.” “It wouldn’t matter in that storm.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Maybe you should be a lawyer.” “I can’t think of anything worse.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“banks and student loan companies had convinced Congress that such debts should be given special protection and not exempted. She remembered him saying, “Hell, even gamblers can go bankrupt and walk away.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“And you’ve never been married, right?” “Correct.” “Well, I’ve tried it twice and I’m not sure I can recommend it.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Same here, but my limit is fifty pages. I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason. Tessa was like that. She would toss a book after the first chapter, then pick it up and grumble and growl for four hundred pages until the bitter end. Never understood that.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Remember Drunk in Philly? J. P. Walthall’s masterpiece.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“The books were all first editions, some autographed by the authors. Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, published in 1961; Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead (1948); John Updike’s Rabbit, Run (1960); Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952); Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (1961); Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus (1959); William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967); Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (1929); Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1965); and J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951).”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse to do so upon the theory that once a character is created he or she will do something interesting.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.’ That’s the perfect description of Tessa’s family.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“poking”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“He understood fear. What he hated was weakness.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“I suppose. You want a beer?” “No. Stopped drinking a few years back. Wife made me quit.” “Get another wife.” “I’ve tried that too.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“displayed”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“You’ve heard the old saying ‘Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“After the first dozen or so, Bruce began placing the books on a table rather than returning them to the shelves. His initial curiosity was overwhelmed by a heady wave of excitement, then greed. On the lower shelf he ran across books and authors he’d never heard of until he made an even more startling discovery. Hidden behind a thick three-volume biography of Churchill were four books: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929); Steinbeck’s Cup of Gold (1929); F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise (1920); and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929). All were first editions in excellent condition and signed by the authors.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“magistrate,”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“The old saying from college: “If you’re gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.” ​”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929); Steinbeck’s Cup of Gold (1929); F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise (1920); and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929).”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“One led him by the elbow while the other grabbed his bag from the overhead rack. Driving to the jail, they said nothing. Bored with silence, Mark asked, “So, fellas, am I under arrest?” Without turning around, the driver said, “We don’t normally put handcuffs on random civilians.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“frame”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“She awoke in a strange bed in a round room, and for the first few seconds she was afraid to move because any movement would sharpen the pounding in her forehead. Her eyes were burning so she closed them. Her mouth and throat were parched. A gentle rolling in her stomach warned that things might get worse. Okay, a hangover; been here before and survived, could be a long day but, hey, what the hell? No one made her drink too much. Own it, girl. The old saying from college: “If you’re gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“«Humo de hidalguía, la cabeza vana y la bolsa vacía».”
― John Grisham, El caso Fitzgerald

“A Spool of Blue Thread”
― John Grisham, Camino Island