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Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney
American Writer
Born: Jan 13, 1955
About Me People Think World You
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If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it. Jay McInerney
Generation Bad Luck Dangerous Luck Bad Outlive Spokesman Occupation Era Being Anyone Fleeting Who Downright Symbol
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent. Jay McInerney
Book Think Ellis Pretty About My Friend Remain Excellent New Friend American York New York Psycho Fan
I love to imagine inside the head of a woman. Jay McInerney
Love Woman Inside Head Imagine
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters. Jay McInerney
You Politician Say Some About Quarters American Socialist Thing
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention. Jay McInerney
World Our Says Worthy More Mentality Factory Attention Bias Literary Workers Socialist Consensus
Eat, drink and remarry is my motto. Jay McInerney
Eat My Motto Drink Motto
I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon. Jay McInerney
Hope Me People Try Will Think Fraud Like Perhaps Make Always Than Afraid Then Should Harder
You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded. Jay McInerney
Me You Know Make Read Always Sound Am Surprised Jaded Profiles
I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not. Jay McInerney
Life Crazy Made My Life Consistently Out Kind Possibly Deliberately Resulting Stuff Test Mix Laboratory Tubes Maybe Afraid Where Interesting Mean Create Explosions Necessarily
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that. Jay McInerney
Country Dig Type Writer Like Very Happily Bury Themselves Deep
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. Jay McInerney
Love Woman Wife Eccentric Still Very Which Former Why Her
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item. Jay McInerney
Sometimes Think Everything Touch Item Six Page Turns
I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible. Jay McInerney
Life Culture Gossip Think Guardians Would-Be Purpose Columns Feel Lot Gets Literary Who Incompatible Things Two
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times. Jay McInerney
You Marry Times Romantic Four
Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved. Jay McInerney
Love Love Is Everyone Almost Almost Everyone Quest Loved Wants Eternal To Love
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money. Jay McInerney
You Yourself Money Lying Catch Know Your Therapist Waste
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore. Jay McInerney
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Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.' Jay McInerney
Good Gossip Sex Girl Sex And The City City New Like Gossip Girl Real Yeah York New York Show
I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York. Jay McInerney
Think Possible Kind Would Some Voice Had New Suppose Reached Until Discovered York New York Different Literary Found Career
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. Jay McInerney
Writing Envy Those Find Outline Writers Know Discovery Going Where Process Who Novels

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