Latest John Fante Quotes from Interviews

• Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.

  John Fante

  Exercise, Giving, Answers

• I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.

  John Fante

  Morning, Writing, Night

• Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

  John Fante

  Commitment, Years, People

• Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

  John Fante

  Strong, Father, Book

• Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

  John Fante

  Self, Bullshit, Intellectual

• The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to personal growth, and lessons in personal actualization. The bible is a spiritual masterpiece.

  John Fante

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Keys

• When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his titles, I tell the clerk to order what is missing. I do it because I want people to read my father's work.

  John Fante

  Father, Book, Order