John Gregory Dunne Quotes
-
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.
→ -
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.
→ -
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
→ -
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
→ -
The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.
→ -
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.
→ -
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
→ -
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.
→ -
The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.
→ -
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
→ -
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
→ -
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.
→ -
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
→
Related Authors
-
Gay Talese Author -
Jay Presson Allen Screenwriter -
William Faulkner Writer -
Calvin Trillin Journalist -
Susan Sontag Writer -
Joyce Carol Oates Author -
Bret Easton Ellis Novelist -
James Ellroy Crime writer -
Dominick Dunne Writer -
Tom Wolfe Author -
Cesar Chavez Civil rights activist -
Frank Pierson Screenwriter -
Joan Didion Author -
Griffin Dunne Actor -
Sara Davidson Journalist -
Barbra Streisand Singer-songwriter -
Norman Mailer Novelist -
Jessica Savitch Television personality -
Rupert Holmes Composer -
Annie Dillard Author