People
John Fante

John Fante Quotes

Total quotes: 3

John Fante

Birthname

Birthday: April 8, 1909

Death: May 8, 1983

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“Because they have nothing in their hearts they must swallow and defend principles they know nothing about...They do not sympathize except hypocritically.”

— John Fante, Mencken: The American Iconoclast

Tagged: Life

“I will make a boisterous pretense at nonsense and my father will leap into the unimportance of it...”

— John Fante, John Fante: A Literary Portrait

Tagged: Life

“I think the one thing that a writer must avoid is bitterness.”

— John Fante, How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel

Tagged: Writers, Writing, Bitterness

loading next page...