John Grisham on Literature

Here's another article spotlight. This one is from the Chicago Sun-Times, and it's an interview with John Grisham. Grisham offers some encouraging words to me as a writer in this article; he states "I'm not writing literature, I'm an entertainer." This goes along with what the last article spotlight said about genre versus literary writing. Also, Grisham gives encouragement to struggling writers by relating his own rise to author-dom through committing to write every day. I have resolved that I should eventually read one of his novels; however, given the length of my reading list, the US may leave Iraq before I get around to it.

"John Grisham: I'm not writing literature, I'm an entertainer" by Douglas J. Rowe, Associated Press, 5 February 2008