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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is beyond the pale. The Internet is such a bazaar of self-indulgences that I don’t know why that particular one should bug me so much. But it really does. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they’re designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
The don’t-ask-don’t-tell approach to plot and character that ‘The Hurt Locker’ relies on to set itself in motion doesn’t offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
