One of my favorite pieces of advice about being a writer came from a very formative teacher I had as an undergraduate, named John Hersey. On our last…

- 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

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

- Jonathan Dee

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 a bad sentence on th…

- Jonathan Dee

I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

- Jonathan Dee

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

- Jonathan Dee

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 worse than that.

- Jonathan Dee

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

- 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 also a novel narrated by…

- Jonathan Dee