Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share 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.… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view – the point of view of the creature who experiences them.… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
