Jay McInerney Quotes - Page 2

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• Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

  Jay McInerney

  Stories, Versions

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• 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

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• You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Grieving, Practice

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.52, Vintage

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• You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

  Jay McInerney

  Sound, Profile, Knows

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• Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And then once you're approaching 40, you suddenly think, "Well, maybe I would like to live longer than Fitzgerald or Thomas."

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Dylan

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 21, 2016.

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• Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

  Jay McInerney

  Love Is, Quests, Want

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• Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

  Jay McInerney

  Self, Novelists, World

  "The uses of invention" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

  Jay McInerney

  Drink, Motto, My Motto

  Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

  Jay McInerney

  Imagine

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• I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

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  Life, Horse, House

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.94, Vintage

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• I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

  Jay McInerney

  Crazy, Mean, Interesting

  "The beautiful and the damned". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• "Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

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  Politician, Quarters, Socialist

  "Jay McInerney on Obama: 'We have to give him a second chance'" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city where civilization sort of ended, and therefore young people could live cheaply, or open nightclubs or art galleries, or even squat. That fringe moved out to New Jersey and Brooklyn. The whole idea of the metropolis is the centralization of like-minded souls, and when the central real estate becomes too expensive, the dreamers, the young poets, and the artists will go elsewhere.

  Jay McInerney

  Art, Real, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Pages, Six

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• If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

  Jay McInerney

  Flower, Water, Cost

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• He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

  Jay McInerney

  Hard Work, Secret, Survival

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• Great minds sink alike, right?

  Jay McInerney

  Mind, Great Minds

  Jay McInerney (1989). “Story of My Life”

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• 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.

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• Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

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  Matter, Limits, Conducting

  Jay McInerney (2009). “How It Ended”, p.4, Vintage

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• If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

  Jay McInerney

  Luck, Generations, Fleeting

  "The butterfly crusher" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2007.

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• My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

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  Wife, Eccentric, Former

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• The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art or music irrelevant. In fact, I think that literature and art help us to understand - sometimes they provide narratives and metaphors for understanding history, for understanding recent catastrophes.

  Jay McInerney

  Art, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

  Jay McInerney

  Imagination, Mines, Autonomous

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• There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

  Jay McInerney

  Country, Type, Very Deep

  "The beautiful and the damned" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• 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

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