61 Quotes by John Gregory Dunne

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

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

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

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

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

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.

Evading military service has a long history in American life.