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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
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
— John Gregory Dunne
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
— John Gregory Dunne
Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.
— Benny Bellamacina
In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.
— Rafael Sabatini
Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
— John Gregory Dunne
I've always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.
— John Gregory Dunne
The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.
— John Gregory Dunne
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
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
— John Gregory Dunne
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
— John Gregory Dunne
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
Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things.
— Ralph Bouma
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.
— John Gregory Dunne
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
Strong words are required for weak principles.
— Douglas Horton
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
— John Gregory Dunne