When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life.
When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch … - Joe Frank
When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch …
- Joe Frank
I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really g… - Joe Frank
I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really g…
You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get. - Joe Frank
You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.
If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important. - Joe Frank
If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.
Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm. - Joe Frank
Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.
You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life. - Joe Frank
You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
Don't pull your love out on me baby. - Joe Frank
Don't pull your love out on me baby.
It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much time do you have left? How do you want to s… - Joe Frank
It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much time do you have left? How do you want to s…
I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordi… - Joe Frank
I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordi…
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