"My mistake, and it is one I deeply……" — James Frey
"My mistake, and it is one I deeply regret, is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me cope, and not the person who went through the experience."
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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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Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
— Douglas Adams
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Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of…
— Jo Brand
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true…
— Caleb Carr
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If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions…
— Kris Carr
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This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
— Charlie Chaplin
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I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying…
— Lee Child
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Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom…
— Carl F. H. Henry
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Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even…
— Unknown Author
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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something…
— Sun Tzu
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There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and…
— Unknown Author
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