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… — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better. — Jay McInerney Copy Share
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. — Jay McInerney Copy Share
I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled… — Jay McInerney Copy Share
