John Brandon Quotes

#1. It's nice not to have to worry about applying for things. It's really a different existence.

John Brandon

#2. I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

John Brandon

#3. I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

James Belushi

#4. Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education.

John Brandon

#5. He planned for his son or daughter to have three or four toys, minimal sports equipment, and a thousand books. He didn't care for the rhymed nonsense of Dr. Seuss, but preferred anything that instilled basic knowledge sets. He could abide a talking animal, but not an inanimate object that spoke.

John Brandon

#6. It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C.E.O.'s or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer.

John Brandon

#7. I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.

John Brandon

#8. Did you call someone and tell them you're safe?"
"Called and told 'em I'm not dead. Not so sure about safe
yet.

Jamie Farrell

#9. Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

Brandon Boyd

#10. I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

Charles Jencks

#11. Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Michael Haneke

#12. I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

John Brandon

#13. Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it.

Kevin Spacey

#14. I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.

Brandon Flowers

#15. A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.

Brandon Jones

#16. The very fact that we long for the change we do is a sign that we are meant to have it. Our very dissatisfaction with our weaknesses and struggles points to the reality that continuing to live in them is not our destiny.

Stasi Eldredge

#17. In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

Lily Tomlin

#18. The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.

John Brandon

#19. None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

John Brandon