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The rain made for an odd effect forty floors up, because you didn't get to see it hit anything on the way down, it was just a kind of static in the gray air.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: The rain made for an
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: I seem to have a
What is a fiction writer after all, but a judge, a dispenser of justice, an arranger of fates, an agent, above all, of moral order?
Jonathan Dee Quotes: What is a fiction writer
I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: I am hopelessly devoted to
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: Novels are a kind of
Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: Tween programming is so retro
I mean she's not exactly a complex figure. You can look at her and pretty much imagine what that whole relationship was like. She's like a dog. One bit of kindness and she's so grateful she forgets about what happened a minute ago.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: I mean she's not exactly
That mysterious foreknowledge of my success in life was sweeter to me than the success itselt.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: That mysterious foreknowledge of my
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: When I read a book
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me, it was important to have some sense that my failures weren't unique.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: There's no path to being
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: Writers like to feel sorry
I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: I'm not interested in current
On the way home I was mugged and hit my head and got amnesia. I don't remember anything that happened before yesterday. I found your address in my wallet. I couldn't remember my name. I still can't. Let's go out and get new ones. My treat.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: On the way home I
I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: I personally feel I still
When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: When I'm composing a scene
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: I have no desire to
If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: If you look at the
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: In order to describe a
Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects, I am an embarrassingly analog guy. I am not on Facebook. I write whole books on yellow legal pads. I do not own a cell phone.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: Don't get me wrong: I
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: The first draft of everything,
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.
Jonathan Dee Quotes: Those who know New York
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