Dominick Dunne quotes:

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.