Dominick Dunne Quotes

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

  Dominick Dunne

  Kings, Play, People

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• Success is the most valuable commodity.

  Dominick Dunne

  Commodity, Valuable

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• You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

  Dominick Dunne

  Powerful, Writing, Rich

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

  Dominick Dunne

  Liz, Persons, Knows

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• Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

  Dominick Dunne

  Drama, Ordinary, Want

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Editors

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• 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.

  Dominick Dunne

  Thinking, People, Justice

  "Making a killing on murder cases / Dominick Dunne reinvents himself" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. June 9, 2002.

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• Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

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  Party, Sophisticated, Ritual

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• 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.

  Dominick Dunne

  Adventure, World, Wonderful

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