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Writer Quotes by Jay McInerney

8 Writer quotes by Jay McInerney

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Jay McInerney’s thoughts on the writer’s craft are delivered in eight crisp statements, echoing his focus on city life and contemporary culture. This brief collection offers a quick glimpse of his belief that prose can pulse with the rhythm of modern streets.

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I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the…

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“You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job…

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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like…

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There aren't many shy writers left.

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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

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“You have always wanted to be a writer. Getting the job at the magazine was only your first step toward literacy celebrity.…

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“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in…

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I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or…

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“Taste is a matter of taste.”

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Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44.…

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I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that…

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“She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view – the point of view of the creature who experiences them.…

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Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

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My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

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“Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on…

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Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

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Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

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“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”

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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…

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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…

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Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

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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…

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