"I would like to be soft and warm.……" — James Frey
"I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself."
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161 Quotes by James Frey
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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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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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