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.

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These are some quotes by American author John Burnham Schwartz Novelist, who was born in 1965.

Quotes by John Burnham Schwartz

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

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

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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.

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