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…
• Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
• You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
• 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…
• 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…
• What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
• I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
• 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…
• 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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