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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
Blogger
Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
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Faith is the fool's excuse.
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.
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Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?
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I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.
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On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.
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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.
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That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.
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There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.
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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
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You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.
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I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.
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There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
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Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
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Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
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I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.
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When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.
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I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.
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