John Brandon
John Brandon
learned name people talented worked
Everything I know I learned from Mel and the talented people who worked for him. History. Archaeology. Geology. Electronics. You name it.
bottom bucks share start treasure week work
I got 65 bucks a week and got to live on the boat. I didn't get any share of the treasure when I started. But again, you start at the bottom and work your way up.
sports growing-up reading
I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.
sometimes knows
Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education.
college doctors people
It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C.E.O.'s or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer.
teacher writing college
None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.