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> [“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/writing-is-a-manual-labor-of-the-mind-a-job-like-laying-pipe/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

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## More by John Gregory Dunne

> [“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/writing-is-a-manual-labor-of-the-mind-a-job-like-laying-pipe/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/new-york-is-at-once-cosmopolitan-and-parochial-a-compendium-of/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/novels-do-take-charge-of-the-writer-and-the-writer-is-basically-a/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/violence-is-the-way-stupid-people-try-to-level-the-playing-field/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/the-world-is-divided-up-into-two-kinds-of-people-those-who-look-at/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/the-professional-guts-a-book-through-in-full-knowledge-that-what-he/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/because-one-has-written-other-books-does-not-mean-the-next-becomes/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/i-ve-always-thought-a-novelist-only-has-one-character-and-that-is/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/i-started-all-over-again-on-page-1-circling-the-262-pages-like-a/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/the-narrative-was-too-constricted-it-was-like-a-fetus-strangling-on/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/there-are-two-types-of-people-the-scrutinizers-and-the-scrutinized/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/the-point-of-a-notebook-is-to-jumpstart-the-mind/)

[John Gregory Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gregory-dunne/)

> [The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gregory-dunne/the-eleventh-commandment-of-a-motion-picture-negotiation-thou-shalt/)

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