Jay McInerney quotes - page 2

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university. (Jay McInerney)

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

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I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

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Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

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There aren't many shy writers left.

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When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

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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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Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

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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.

Jay McInerney

You notice for the first time that she has freckles. You didn't know they still made them.

Jay McInerney

"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters. (Jay McInerney)

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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I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

Jay McInerney

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

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

Jay McInerney

It's the cynics who never get married.

Jay McInerney

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