James Frey quotes - page 4

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you. (James Frey)

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

James Frey

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

James Frey

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

James Frey

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

James Frey

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

James Frey

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

James Frey

I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.

James Frey

In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters.

James Frey

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

James Frey

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. (James Frey)

I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this way. I think about the ruin, devastation and wreckage I have caused to myself and to others. I think about self-hatred and self-loathing. I think about how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

James Frey

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

James Frey

When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.

James Frey

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

James Frey

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

James Frey

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

James Frey

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

James Frey

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

James Frey

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

James Frey

Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on. (James Frey)

This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I'll destroy it. Love me, I'll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.

James Frey

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

James Frey

No judgment, no condescension. Just hope.

James Frey

I am alone. I have no one to talk to and no one to call.

James Frey

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