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People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
James Frey
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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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Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
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I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
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Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
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I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
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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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It's been great getting better with you.
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Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.
James Frey
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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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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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
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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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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
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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
Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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I love the process of being alone in a room.
James Frey
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.
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I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.
James Frey
You don't have to follow anybody's rules.
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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
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
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