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• Thomas Mann:

  Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

• Denis Johnson:

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

• Denis Johnson:

  I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and

• Denis Johnson:

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

• Denis Johnson:

  I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to t

• Denis Johnson:

  I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young v

• Denis Johnson:

  I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven m

• Denis Johnson:

  If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, bu

• Denis Johnson:

  If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't ha

• Denis Johnson:

  In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to t