“Well, if you got Cynthia drunk enough, Cynthia thought, she would cop to wanting to do some good in the world, or… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects,… — Jonathan Dee Am 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 Advice 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 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
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
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 Block Copy Share Image
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it. — Jonathan Dee Anybody Copy Share Image
“On the way home I was mugged and hit my head and got amnesia. I don't remember anything that happened before yesterday.… — Jonathan Dee Way home 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
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
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 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
You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel… — Jonathan Dee Any 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
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
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
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
You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can… — Jonathan Dee Apologizing 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
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 Applicable Copy Share Image
“Why hadn't she just said yes? Then she could have driven alone back to the city [...] and picked up some guy… — Jonathan Dee Art 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
I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that… — Jonathan Dee Actually Copy Share Image
Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of… — Jonathan Dee Commercial Copy Share Image
