I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive. John Gregory Dunne More Quotes by John Gregory Dunne More Quotes From John Gregory Dunne I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. John Gregory Dunne novelistscharacter Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. John Gregory Dunne stupidtryingpeople 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 congratulationsnew-yorkself Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. John Gregory Dunne writingjobsart 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 twopeoplelooks There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized John Gregory Dunne typetwopeople The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind. John Gregory Dunne jumpstartnotebookmind I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. John Gregory Dunne vulturepagesflesh The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. John Gregory Dunne umbilical-cordfetusliterature Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier. John Gregory Dunne doemeanbook 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 trackwritingtrying The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal. John Gregory Dunne strategynegotiationlasts 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 nervesworkbook The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station. John Gregory Dunne self-imagedependupsports Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man. John Gregory Dunne tigernevermanblack What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not. John Gregory Dunne howwarhistorypeople All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be. John Gregory Dunne beyondplacedangerouslife In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves. John Gregory Dunne earthquakeearthsportsworld 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. John Gregory Dunne aloneyoucommunitytime I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world. John Gregory Dunne youredblueworld
