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 think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
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
I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city… — 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
