Quotes by John Burnham Schwartz

About John Burnham Schwartz:

John Burnham Schwartz is an American novelist and screenwriter.
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Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

John Burnham Schwartz

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred b...

John Burnham Schwartz

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

John Burnham Schwartz

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

John Burnham Schwartz

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.

John Burnham Schwartz

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

John Burnham Schwartz

Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. econom...

John Burnham Schwartz

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 f...

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Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

John Burnham Schwartz

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

John Burnham Schwartz

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.

John Burnham Schwartz

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.

John Burnham Schwartz

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

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Burnham Schwartz
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist