“That mysterious foreknowledge of my success in life was sweeter to me than the success itselt.” — Jonathan Dee Life Copy Share Image
You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind. — Jonathan Dee Bad news 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… — Jonathan Dee Constantly 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… — Jonathan Dee Believe 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… — Jonathan Dee Book Copy Share Image
“Tough times brought out the bad side of people, it seemed, and this internet was like some giant bathroom wall where you… — Jonathan Dee Bad side Copy Share Image
I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen… — Jonathan Dee Backwards 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,… — Jonathan Dee Certain 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… — Jonathan Dee Along Copy Share Image
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. — Jonathan Dee Figures 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… — Jonathan Dee Apartment Copy Share Image
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but… — Jonathan Dee Bring Copy Share Image
Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my… — Jonathan Dee Am Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Alive 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… — Jonathan Dee Book 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.… — Jonathan Dee Book Copy Share Image
“She wanted to find his limit, because knowing that limit would drive a wedge between them; but in his mind, the question… — Jonathan Dee Psychology 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… — Jonathan Dee Kindness 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… — Jonathan Dee Any 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… — Jonathan Dee All day Copy Share Image
That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material… — Jonathan Dee Always Copy Share Image
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people. — Jonathan Dee Endings Copy Share Image
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. — Jonathan Dee Books Copy Share Image
What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it? — Jonathan Dee About Copy Share Image
You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or… — Jonathan Dee Being yourself Copy Share Image
“The rain made for an odd effect forty floors up, because you didn't get to see it hit anything on the way… — Jonathan Dee Rain Copy Share Image
When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better -… — Jonathan Dee Acting Copy Share Image
More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk… — Jonathan Dee Junk Copy Share Image
I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just… — Jonathan Dee Because Copy Share Image
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it… — Jonathan Dee Book Copy Share Image
Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain… — Jonathan Dee Book Copy Share Image
Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are… — Jonathan Dee Advertiser Copy Share Image
I don't want to make it sound too much like I'm telling people how to read the book A Thousand Pardons, but… — Jonathan Dee Book Copy Share Image
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.… — Jonathan Dee Computer Copy Share Image
If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the… — Jonathan Dee American Copy Share Image
The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically.… — Jonathan Dee Approach Copy Share Image
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.… — Jonathan Dee Computer Copy Share Image
Another big moment in terms of that feeling was David Petraeus: if the director of the CIA can't get away with having… — Jonathan Dee Cia Copy Share Image
A Thousand Pardons began at the beginning. I wanted it to be one continuous, almost breathless kind of story. In order to… — Jonathan Dee Begin Copy Share Image
In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit… — Jonathan Dee Couple Copy Share Image
