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Bret Anthony Johnston

(1971) Writer United States

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Bret Anthony Johnston is a writer from the United States, best known for Remember Me Like This.

Quick Facts About Bret Anthony Johnston

Born: January 1, 1971
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Remember Me Like This

About Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author, novelist and essayist. He wrote the novel Remember Me Like This and the story collection, Corpus Christi: Stories. He is also the editor of the non-fiction work, Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. He won the 2017 Sunday Times Short Story Award.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship

Quotes by Bret Anthony Johnston

The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill,…

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Crafts

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The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only…

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Bridges

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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

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Action

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“EVERY WEDNESDAY, I teach an introductory fiction workshop at Harvard University, and on the first day of class I pass out a…

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Alarm clock

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“The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind,”

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Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.

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Funny

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Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

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Dog

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“Walmart, and McCoy’s lumber. Customers”

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“Really, once the worst happens, it’s always happening. It’s never not happening.”

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