Books Quote by Jay McInerney

“Taste is a matter of taste.”

— Jay McInerney

Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44.…

— Jay McInerney

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that…

— Jay McInerney

“She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view – the point of view of the creature who experiences them.…

— Jay McInerney

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

— Jay McInerney

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

— Jay McInerney

“Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on…

— Jay McInerney

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

— Jay McInerney

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

— Jay McInerney

“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”

— Jay McInerney

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course…

— Jay McInerney

I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and…

— Jay McInerney