Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Dominick Dunne

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Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of the award-winning drug film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s, and after the 1982 killing of his daughter, Dominique, he began to focus on the ways in which wealth and high society interact with the judicial system. Dunne was a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and from the 1980s, he appeared regularly on television discussing crime.

American - Journalist | October 29, 1925 - August 26, 2009

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I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

Dominick Dunne

I've 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

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

Dominick Dunne

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

Dominick Dunne

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

Dominick Dunne

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

Dominick Dunne

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

Dominick Dunne

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

Dominick Dunne

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

Dominick Dunne

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

Dominick Dunne

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

I think I need pictures with my articles.

Dominick Dunne

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

Success is the most valuable commodity.

Dominick Dunne

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

Dominick Dunne

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

Dominick Dunne

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

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

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.

Dominick Dunne

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

Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Dominick Dunne

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