Quote

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Jay McInerney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jay McInerney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 13
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Writing
Outlines
Going
Novels
Envy
Discovery
Writers
Novel
Process
Find
Outline

More quotes by Jay McInerney

Image
Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)
Jay McInerney
Image
There aren't many shy writers left.
Jay McInerney
Image
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
Jay McInerney
Image
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.
Jay McInerney
Image
I'm a romantic you have to be to marry four times.
Jay McInerney
Image
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
Jay McInerney
Image
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
Jay McInerney
Image
Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.
Jay McInerney
Image
Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.
Jay McInerney
Image
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.
Jay McInerney
Image
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
Jay McInerney
Image
I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.
Jay McInerney
Image
It's the cynics who never get married.
Jay McInerney
Image
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.
Jay McInerney
Image
A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.
Jay McInerney
Image
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
Jay McInerney
Image
I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.
Jay McInerney
Image
I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.
Jay McInerney
Image
Great minds sink alike, right?
Jay McInerney
Image
Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
Jay McInerney