"I embellished many details about my past experiences,……" — James Frey
"I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the book."
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161 Quotes by James Frey
James Frey has 161 quotes on this site.
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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of…
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The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something…
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I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
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Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
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I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous…
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I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and…
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If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest,…
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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
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Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
— Francis Bacon
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I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something…
— John Bolton
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that…
— Phyllis Bottome
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have…
— Emily Bronte
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily…
— Abdallah II
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A…
— Harlan Coben
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Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and…
— Oswald Chambers
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is…
— Douglas MacArthur
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if…
— Bernie Siegel
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Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little…
— George Johnson
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