Jay McInerney Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

  Jay McInerney

  Writing, Discovery, Envy

• A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

  Jay McInerney

  Teacher, Writing, Two

  "Novelist Jay McInerney on Getting Your Novel Underway". Interview with Anne Bowling, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

• I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

  Jay McInerney

  Writing, Thinking, Envy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

  Jay McInerney

  New York, Writing, People

• The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

  Jay McInerney

  Writing, Sensible, Approach

• I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books quite heartlessly, and sometimes found that readers were very upset by it.

  Jay McInerney

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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