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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.
Jay McInerney
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Jay McInerney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 13
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Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.
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Socialist is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
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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.
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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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Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)
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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
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You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.
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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.
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You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
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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.
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