All Jay McInerney Quotes
- Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world. Ambitious
- My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. Eccentric
- Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item. Into
- The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. Arise
- There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that. Bury
- There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention. Attention
- We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published. Been
- When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money. Catch
- Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City. Cities
- You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even… Always Believe
- I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff… Afraid
- 'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters. American
- The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. Apologizing
- Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash) Inspirational
- Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed Becomes
- Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of… Bottle
- Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. Afraid
- I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room. Carousel
- Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story. Another Version
- Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish… All
- Great minds sink alike, right? Alike
- Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating. Accelerating
- If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the… Anyone
- Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did. Attacks
- I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their… Big