You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique. But it's… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I just thought,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“That mysterious foreknowledge of my success in life was sweeter to me than the success itselt.” — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“I mean she's not exactly a complex figure. You can look at her and pretty much imagine what that whole relationship was like. She's… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
