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 stop.
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people. - 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
You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. - Jonathan Dee
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
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
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…
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
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all …
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. - Jonathan Dee
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
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