John Dunne Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

John Gregory Dunne

#3. I've always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

John Gregory Dunne

#4. 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

#5. The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.

John Dunne

#6. The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

John Gregory Dunne

#7. 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

#8. The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

John Gregory Dunne

#9. 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

#10. I don't want to make a show about AA because it's a personal experience for anybody who is a part of that. My relationship with it has changed over the years, and I wanted the show to reflect that in a real way.

Will Arnett

#11. Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

John Gregory Dunne

#12. The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

John Gregory Dunne

#13. Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

Janina Gavankar

#14. You have what she needs," he said again. "And you're capable of giving her more than she'd ever bargained for because you love her. Wether she wants it or not, it's your gift to her. True love requires no reciprocation. True love is unconditional.

Aja James

#15. What's that sticky stuff called?
Basta: Duct tape.
Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

Cornelia Funke

#16. I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

John Gregory Dunne

#17. There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

John Gregory Dunne

#18. Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

John Gregory Dunne

#19. People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

Mark Thomas

#20. As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York ... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

John R. Dunne

#21. I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

Ian Anderson

#22. The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

Melanie Klein

#23. Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

Michael Crichton

#24. Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Patricia Briggs