John Gregory Dunne Quotes

For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice, what Robert Kagan calls the military 'career path' is not widely seen as a plausible future. Pulling a trigger is what Jose, Tyrone, and Bubba do, not early admission students at the better private universities.

John Gregory Dunne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1932 - December 30, 2003

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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

Meg Wolitzer

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I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.

Stephen Furst

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As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.

Matt Bomer

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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Jean Anouilh

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More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

Jonathan Dee

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I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

Chloe Benjamin

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If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.

Bruno Maag

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Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.

Ariel Sharon

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It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

Allison Tolman

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There is an indescribable something that ties us to life. For this purpose, it is not necessary that we should be happy. Though our life be almost without enjoyment, we do not consent to part with it.

William Godwin

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As a kid I used to always write these stories... some of them were really cute; some of them were kind of crazy.

Phoebe Robinson

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Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.

Peter Landesman

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