Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Bret Anthony Johnston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Bret Anthony Johnston.

Last updated on November 10, 2024.

Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author. He wrote the novel Remember Me Like This and the story collection, Corpus Christi: Stories. He is also the editor of the non-fiction work, Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. He won the 2017 Sunday Times Short Story Award.

American - Author | Born: 1971

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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

Bret Anthony Johnston

The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice, the result is a story beholden to and inevitably eclipsed by source material.

Bret Anthony Johnston

Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.

Bret Anthony Johnston

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

Bret Anthony Johnston

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Bret Anthony Johnston

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Bret Anthony Johnston

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