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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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I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.
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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.
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The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.
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Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
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I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.
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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
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Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.
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The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
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