Denis Johnson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 1, 1949 - May 24, 2017

Topics

TruthCrazyFactsLanguageTrying

I don't want anything from anybody. I'm just unusual.

Jimmy Savile

WantAnythingUnusualJustAnybody

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

Jennifer Hale

ExperienceGrowing UpGrowingMore

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

Sofia Coppola

EndFindTryDifficultyGreatest

If you look back to 2008, people didn't have smartphones. Now everyone essentially has a smartphone.

Steve Mollenkopf

PeopleYouLookBackNowEveryone

Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.

Travis Bradberry

HateSilenceTalkingInformationTry

Chanel is my ultimate weakness.

Rita Ora

WeaknessUltimateChanel

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

Ronnie Barker

SeaManPerformancePicturesStrange

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Mary Shelley

NatureMeMoreWindsAccentsVery

I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.

Joshua Ostrander

LearningPatienceBelieveWinePlay

Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only way to get inside the characters and make the narrative work. It's a storytelling tradition, and I think to come off as genuine then you have to really approach it that way.

Jason Isbell

WorkThinkTraditionYouGenuine

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

Joseph Parker

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While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

Jonathan Dimbleby

TruthWritingBeenErrorsPrince

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