John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm… — Jonathan Dee 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 Copy Share Image
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for… — Jonathan Dee 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I hesitate to say yes - I had writer's block, because I know there are people who've had really serious cases of… — Jonathan Dee 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 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 Copy Share Image
One of my favorite pieces of advice about being a writer came from a very formative teacher I had as an undergraduate,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum.… — Jonathan Dee 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 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 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
