"Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction." — James Frey

"Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction."

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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.
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…
The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something…
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…
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and…
If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest,…
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.

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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