John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

John Burnham Schwartz — American Novelist born on December 30, 1965,

John Burnham Schwartz is an American novelist and screenwriter... (wikipedia)

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they are in the glass bubble.

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.

The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

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