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I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

Jay McInerney

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Jay McInerney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 13
Novelist
Screenwriter
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
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Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And then once you're approaching 40, you suddenly think, Well, maybe I would like to live longer than Fitzgerald or Thomas.
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Socialist is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
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Great minds sink alike, right?
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Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
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Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.
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Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.
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The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.
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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
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I'm a romantic you have to be to marry four times.
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Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
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It's the cynics who never get married.
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When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
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Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
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I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.
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I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
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Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)
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He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
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