James Frey Quotes

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• Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
• The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
• For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent…
• The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when…
• I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
• Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want…
• I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I…
• If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have…
• You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
• Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
• To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
• Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
• My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.
• Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be…
• When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and…
• When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
• America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as…
• I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've…
• I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point,…

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