Fante Quotes

“My dad, the man I loved most in the world, a man who refused to compromise himself for anyone, the man who had showed me by example what it was like to be a true artist, was gone. We had become a loving father and son after a rocky thirty-year start. John Fante’s gift to me was his ambition, his brilliance, and his pure writer’s heart. He had begun life with a drunken, self-hating father, backing out of the hell of poverty and prejudice. Now he was ending it as the best example of courage and humility I had ever known. John Fante was my hero.”
― Dan Fante, Fante

“Sadly, his earliest novel and one of his best works, The Road to Los Angeles, would not see print until long after his death.”
― Dan Fante, Fante