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.More Dennis Johnson quotes [08/09/2011 05:08:13]

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.More Dennis Johnson quotes [08/09/2011 05:08:46]

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.More Dennis Johnson quotes [08/09/2011 05:08:06]

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.More Dennis Johnson quotes [08/09/2011 05:08:53]

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.More Dennis Johnson quotes [08/09/2011 05:08:59]