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You're under pressure when you...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

When I'm writing for Esquire, ...

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

What's funny about Jesus' Son ...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

In the plays - that's where I ...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

If you write fiction, you're b...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

If you take a lie and allow yo...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

I'd met a woman and I got marr...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

I was probably 35 when I wrote...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

I think it's silly for anyone ...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

I really enjoy writing novels....

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

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

I didn't finish the stories un...

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.

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

All the modern verse plays, th...

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

Dennis Johnson 12 quotes

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