Book Quote by Jonathan Dee

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee

You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.

— Jonathan Dee

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I…

— Jonathan Dee

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 and trying…

— Jonathan Dee

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of…

— Jonathan Dee

The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique. But it's…

— Jonathan Dee

I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I just thought,…

— Jonathan Dee

It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things…

— Jonathan Dee

“That mysterious foreknowledge of my success in life was sweeter to me than the success itselt.”

— Jonathan Dee

“I mean she's not exactly a complex figure. You can look at her and pretty much imagine what that whole relationship was like. She's…

— Jonathan Dee

That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative,…

— Jonathan Dee

It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're…

— Jonathan Dee