Quote

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

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
Nonfiction
Aren
Pure
Fiction
Books
Book

More quotes by James Frey

Image
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.
James Frey
Image
Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
James Frey
Image
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.
James Frey
Image
What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.
James Frey
Image
Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
James Frey
Image
I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.
James Frey
Image
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.
James Frey
Image
Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.
James Frey
Image
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.
James Frey
Image
Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.
James Frey
Image
The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
James Frey
Image
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
James Frey
Image
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
James Frey
Image
It's been great getting better with you.
James Frey
Image
I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.
James Frey
Image
To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
James Frey
Image
Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.
James Frey
Image
Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
James Frey
Image
Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.
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