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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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James Christopher Frey
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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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There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.
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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 think men who can cry are strong men
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But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
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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 promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.
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She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.
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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'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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Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.
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I love the process of being alone in a room.
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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.
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People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
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Faith is the fool's excuse.
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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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Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
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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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