Jonathan Dee Quotes
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More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't…
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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
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You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
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The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write…
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I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other…
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What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
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Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot…
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In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it,…
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Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social…
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Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years…
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Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of…
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New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
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I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
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I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had…
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I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I…
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