James Frey Quotes - Page 7

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• Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

  James Frey

  Crafts, Execution, Concepts

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• I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

  James Frey

  Artist, Thinking, Want

  "James Frey: 'I always wanted to be the outlaw'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2011.

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

  James Frey

  Attitude, Writing, Needs

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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

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

  James Frey

  Rooms, Process

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.

  James Frey

  Way, Bother, Compartmentalizing

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Past, Echoes, Would Be

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

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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