Dominick Dunne Quotes

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

I think I need pictures with my articles.

The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn't know her.

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man ... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.