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You are the kind of guy who always hopes for a miracle at the last minute. — Jay McInerney

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

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating. — 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

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better. — 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 like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university. — 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

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

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits. — Jay McInerney

Sometimes you feel like the only man in the city without group affiliation. — Jay McInerney

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money. — 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

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. — 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

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. — Jay McInerney

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved. — Jay McInerney

When the train begins to move they return to their Posts and their private sorrows. — 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

You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy. — Jay McInerney

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. — 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

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

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