Quote

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

James Frey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
Blogger
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
Something
Way
Life
Imprisoned
Locked
Hadn
Learned
Everybody

More quotes by James Frey

Image
I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.
James Frey
Image
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
James Frey
Image
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
James Frey
Image
Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.
James Frey
Image
Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
James Frey
Image
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
James Frey
Image
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
James Frey
Image
...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.
James Frey
Image
There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.
James Frey
Image
I love the process of being alone in a room.
James Frey
Image
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.
James Frey
Image
I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.
James Frey
Image
I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.
James Frey
Image
All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.
James Frey
Image
Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.
James Frey
Image
They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.
James Frey
Image
Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
James Frey
Image
There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.
James Frey
Image
I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.
James Frey
Image
I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.
James Frey