Dominick Dunne Quotes
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You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.
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Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
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The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.
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Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.
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I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.
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I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.
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Success is the most valuable commodity.
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If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn’t know her.
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People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.
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