Top 20 John Gregory Dunne Quotes
#2. There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
John Gregory Dunne
#3. Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.
Ann Aguirre
#4. I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
John Gregory Dunne
#5. If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell
Freeman Wills Croft
#6. I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.
Andrew Shue
#7. 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
#10. 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
#11. The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
John Gregory Dunne
#12. Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
Charley Reese
#13. Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.
Rafael
#14. 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
#15. I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
Ralph Fiennes
#16. The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
John Gregory Dunne
#18. 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
#19. I've always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.
John Gregory Dunne
#20. Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.
John Gregory Dunne
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