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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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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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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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On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches. (James Frey, pg.1)
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You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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You don't have to follow anybody's rules.
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I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
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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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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.
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I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.
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The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.
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I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.
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What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.
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Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.
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Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
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I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.
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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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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 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.
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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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