John Gregory DunneThinkers

Hollywood is the only place where you can fail upwards.

New York City is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities.

The Novelist is one who only has one character and that is himself or herself.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: A job, like laying pipe.