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Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.
— Jay McInerney
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
— Jay McInerney
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.
— Jay McInerney
You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
— Jay McInerney
Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)
— Jay McInerney
I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.
— Jay McInerney
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
— Jay McInerney
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.
— Jay McInerney
Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
— Jay McInerney
Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.
— Jay McInerney
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.
— Jay McInerney
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
— Jay McInerney
There aren't many shy writers left.
— Jay McInerney
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
— Jay McInerney
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
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
— Jay McInerney
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
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
— Jay McInerney
It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.
— Jay McInerney
Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.
— Jay McInerney
I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.
— Jay McInerney
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.
— Jay McInerney
Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
— Jay McInerney
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
— Jay McInerney
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
— Jay McInerney
Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'
— Jay McInerney
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
— Jay McInerney
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
— Jay McInerney
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
— Jay McInerney
You either need to accept the past as the building blocks that brought you right up to today, or you need to be a better liar.
— Lisa McInerney
Great minds sink alike, right?
— Jay McInerney
Taste is a matter of taste.
— Jay McInerney
Love is recreational, it needs not be aspirational
— Jay McInerney
So many other boys and girls grew up with holes in their chests gaping as wide as the Christian fissure that had spat them into the world. Maureen
— Lisa McInerney
Here you are again. All messed up and no place to go.
— Jay McInerney
Animal? As in lion and tiger and chipmunk? Who's he kidding?
— Judith Whitelock McInerney
It's the cynics who never get married.
— Jay McInerney
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
— Jay McInerney
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.
— Jay McInerney
Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.
— Jay McInerney
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
She had a face like a slapped arse and an arse like a bag of Doritos
— Lisa McInerney
There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
— Jay McInerney
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
— Jay McInerney