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

He credited the political essayist Noel Parmentel with being his mentor in many ways. Eventually he learned to speak normally by observing others. His final novel Nothing Lost which was in galleys at the time of his death was publiJohn Gregory Dunned in 2004.

John Gregory Dunne (May 25 1932 – December 30 2003) was an American novelist screenwriter and literary critic.