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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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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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James Christopher Frey
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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.
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Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
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People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
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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.
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Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.
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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.
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The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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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.
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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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There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.
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I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.
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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.
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Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
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He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.
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Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate.
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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?
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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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