John Gregory Dunne quotes
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“I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.”
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“Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”
-- John Gregory DunneSource : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.196, Zola Books
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“Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.”
-- John Gregory DunneSource : John Gregory Dunne (2007). “Nothing Lost”, p.29, Vintage
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“The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.”
-- John Gregory DunneSource : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.134, Zola Books
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“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 DunneSource : John Gregory Dunne (2007). “Nothing Lost”, p.329, Vintage
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“There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized”
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“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.”
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“Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.”
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“The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.”
-- John Gregory DunneSource : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.198, Zola Books
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“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 DunneSource : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.197, Zola Books
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