"To write a damn good thriller, you need…" — James Frey

"To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude."

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161 Quotes by James Frey

James Frey has 161 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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.
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right… — Aristotle
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as… — Mary Kay Ash
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel… — Mary Kay Ash
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. — Roger Babson
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. — David Bailey
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever… — Pearl Bailey
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume… — Amy Adams
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. — Faith Baldwin
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin

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