Jay McInerney Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.
Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support.
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
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.
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
You have a bad memory for details. You can tell her the date of the Spanish Armada, but you couldn't even guess at the balance of your checkbook.
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.