Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.
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 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
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. - John Gregory Dunne
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind. - John Gregory Dunne
The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized - John Gregory Dunne
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
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 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.
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 citi… - 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 citi…
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. - John Gregory Dunne
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. - John Gregory Dunne
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. - John Gregory Dunne
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
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