Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City. — 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 where civilization sort of ended, and therefore young people could live cheaply, or open nightclubs or art galleries,… — 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
