Latest James Frey Quotes from Interviews

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• I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

  James Frey

  Thinking, People, Literature

  "The Rumpus Interview With James Frey". Interview with Stephen Elliot, therumpus.net. January 20, 2009.

• We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

  James Frey

  Bombs, Cloning, Tests

  Source: therumpus.net

• Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.

  James Frey

  Believe, Gay, Love Is

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?

  James Frey

  New York, Believe, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

• I love the process of being alone in a room.

  James Frey

  Rooms, Process

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

• 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.

• Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

  James Frey

  Book, Bullshit, Pieces

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

• Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

  James Frey

  Dream, Way, Impossible

  Source: therumpus.net

• L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

  James Frey

  Diversity, Unconventional, Horror

  Source: therumpus.net

• What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

  James Frey

  Art, Book, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

• 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

• I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.

  James Frey

  Sex, Thinking, Stories

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

• The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.

  James Frey

  Always Trying, Long, Humanity

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. February 5, 2015.

• You don't have to follow anybody's rules.

  James Frey

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

• That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

  James Frey

  Believe, Stories, Done

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. February 5, 2015.

• I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

  James Frey

  Ambition, Two, Trying

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. February 5, 2015.

• You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

  James Frey

  Conventions

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

• People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.

  James Frey

  People, Care, Call Me

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

• 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.

• The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.

  James Frey

  America, People, Trying

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

• 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.

• One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

  James Frey

  Beautiful, America, Luck

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

• Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

  James Frey

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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

• To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

  James Frey

  Past, Echoes, Would Be

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