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Denis Johnson
German
Writer
Born:
Jul 1
,
1949
Died:
May 24
,
2017
First
Son
Truth
Work
Writing
You
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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
Funny
You
Son
Book
People
Down
Say
Tell
Would
About
Write
Never
Wrote
Just
Stories
Should
Even
Things
Jesus
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
First
Important
About
More
Poetry
Terrible
Mostly
Verse
Modern
Play
Plays
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
Truth
You
Experience
Lie
Assured
Some
Something
Having
Fact
Take
Allow
Go
End
Up
Closer
Gets
Want
Your
Play
Desire
Need
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
Loneliness
You
Yourself
Lonely
Others
Enterprise
Write
Share
Advantages
Get
Anybody
Anymore
Fiction
Anything
Explain
Certain
Who
Whole
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
Truth
Crazy
Language
Touch
Thrill
More
Facts
Prose
Lighter
Concerned
Go
Truthful
Accuracy
Get
Trying
Just
Where
Anything
Much
Plays
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