Quote

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

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
Inside
Head
Imagine
Woman
Love

More quotes by Jay McInerney

Image
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
Jay McInerney
Image
Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.
Jay McInerney
Image
Great minds sink alike, right?
Jay McInerney
Image
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
Jay McInerney
Image
You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
Jay McInerney
Image
Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
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
I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.
Jay McInerney
Image
Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
Jay McInerney
Image
Socialist is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
Jay McInerney
Image
I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
Jay McInerney
Image
Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.
Jay McInerney
Image
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
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
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
Jay McInerney
Image
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.
Jay McInerney
Image
The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.
Jay McInerney
Image
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.
Jay McInerney
Image
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Jay McInerney