John Gregory Dunne Quotes
- Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
- Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
- The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
- Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.
- I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.
- 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 cities…
- The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who…
- There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
- The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
- The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit…