Home › Authors › John Gregory Dunne
John Gregory Dunne Quotes
1932–2003 United States
John Gregory Dunne (May 25, 1932 – December 30, 2003) was an American writer. He began his career as a journalist for Time magazine before expanding into writing criticism, essays, novels, and screenplays.
United States Essayists Journalists Non-fiction authors Novelists Random John Gregory Dunne quote
11 quotes
Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
Membership in the closed society of the motion picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
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.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
Stanley claims that 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.
A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material. Resentment sharpens his eye, hostility hones his killer instinct.
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
Hollywood is a technological crapshoot.
There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis. ... Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
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.
Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
Topics John Gregory Dunne is quoted on
Works