All Denis Johnson Quotes
- I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this… Beginning
- After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy. Busted
- Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was… All
- I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep… Alive
- I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. Boat
- I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but… Any
- And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I… Alcoholic
- There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we… All
- I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but… Double
- Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Inspirational
- What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people… Book
- If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when… Advantage
- If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets… Allow
- All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. All
- You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. All
- [The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both… Asked
- There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out. All
- I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back… Back Together
- And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you. Expect
- Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God. Another Far
- She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give… Birth
- How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's… Been
- Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine… Asian
- I knew every raindrop by its name. Every Raindrop
- She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard… Crazy