Denis Johnson Quotes
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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.
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When I`m writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I`m not writing for American Scholar.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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