What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it? Jonathan Dee Read Quote
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s not really an original idea, but there’s something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you’re impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists – I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time – and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
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 Read Quote
