John Gregory Dunne Quotes & Sayings

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier. — John Gregory Dunne

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. — John Gregory Dunne

Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. — John Gregory Dunne

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized — John Gregory Dunne

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal. — John Gregory Dunne

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. — John Gregory Dunne

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind. — John Gregory Dunne

I've always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. — John Gregory Dunne

New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East — John Gregory Dunne

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve. — John Gregory Dunne

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't. — John Gregory Dunne

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne