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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

~Denis Johnson

Topics: Boat Build Enjoy Just Like Novels Ocean Off Really Take Writing You

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All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

~Denis Johnson

Topics: About First Important Modern More Mostly Play Plays Poetry Terrible Verse

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I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

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Topics: Any Finish Four Got Had Malaria Money More Philippines Seven Stories Three Until Work Wrote

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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 that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

~Denis Johnson

Topics: Alive Anyone Could Influence Jesus Just Keep Know Legend Like Maybe Silly Son Think Write Wrote You I Think

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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 it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

~Denis Johnson

Topics: Also Back Double First Kind Like Looking Looking Back Mix Someone Story Vision Voice Wrote Young

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I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

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Topics: Again Away Came Going Got Had Hit Job Just Married Me Met Money Months Never Out Over Ran Right Right Away Seven Woman Work

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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 you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

~Denis Johnson

Topics: Allow Assured Closer Desire End Experience Fact Gets Go Having Lie Need Play Some Something Take Truth Up Want You Your

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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 anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

~Denis Johnson

Topics: Advantages Anybody Anymore Anything Certain Enterprise Explain Fiction Get Loneliness Lonely Others Share Who Whole Write You Yourself

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In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

~Denis Johnson

Topics: Accuracy Anything Concerned Crazy Facts Get Go Just Language Lighter More Much Plays Prose Thrill Touch Truth Truthful Trying Where

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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 tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

~Denis Johnson

Topics: About Book Down Even Funny Jesus Just Never People Say Should Son Stories Tell Things Would Write Wrote You

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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