James Frey Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

  James Frey

  Writing, Thinking, People

• The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

  James Frey

  Writing, Conflict, Dramatic

• I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

  James Frey

  Writing, Worry, Trust Myself

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

• Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

  James Frey

  Writing, Interest, Accurate

• I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

• I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Style

  "The man who rewrote his life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2006.

• Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Children, Book

• I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Cities

  Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 20, 2009.

• If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Negative

  "Fact or fiction?" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2006.

• Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.

  James Frey

  Jobs, Writing, Might

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

• I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

  James Frey

  Attitude, Writing, Needs

• Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

  James Frey

  Writing, Marketing, Touring

  Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 20, 2009.

• I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, World

  "James Frey’s Own Personal Jesus". Interview with Nate Freeman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2010.

• I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

  James Frey

  Writing, Voice, Trying

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

• When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

  James Frey

  Writing, Style, Stories

  "The man who rewrote his life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2006.

• There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.

  James Frey

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

• I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

  James Frey

  Writing, People, Negative

• I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

  James Frey

  Writing, Instinct, Feels

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

• I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.

  James Frey

  Life Changing, Book, Writing

  "The man who rewrote his life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2006.

• I think, living in America, we're so bombarded with God all the time that in certain ways I'm making statements against that bombardment, you know? I think it's crazy. I mean, I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I still think about it. And I still write about it.

  James Frey

  Crazy, Believe, Writing

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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