I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me… — Jonathan Dee Against 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 once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I… — Jonathan Dee Believe Copy Share Image
Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could… — Jonathan Dee Constantly 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
Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain… — 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
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
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but… — Jonathan Dee Bring Copy Share Image
“Well, if you got Cynthia drunk enough, Cynthia thought, she would cop to wanting to do some good in the world, or… — Jonathan Dee Cynthia Drunk 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… — Jonathan Dee Apartment 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
A Thousand Pardons began at the beginning. I wanted it to be one continuous, almost breathless kind of story. In order to… — Jonathan Dee Begin 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
“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 Amnesia 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… — Jonathan Dee Book Copy Share Image
