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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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Cleveland
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James Christopher Frey
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When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.
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...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.
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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.
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In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.
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