"I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the……" — Denis Johnson
"I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off."
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63 Quotes by Denis Johnson
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I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones…
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After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around…
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I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think…
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I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I…
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And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And…
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There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow,…
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I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it…
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Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.
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What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would…
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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain…
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If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not…
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