The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl,… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.” — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
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… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
