"I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up……" — James Frey
"I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something."
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161 Quotes by James Frey
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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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