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When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.
- James Frey
#Looking
#Right
#Story
#Style
#Writing
I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
- James Frey
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#Get
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#Street
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
- James Frey
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#Interest
#Never
#Writing
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.
- James Frey
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#I Am
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#Walk
My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.
- James Frey
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#Me
#Struggle
#True
#Wife
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
- James Frey
#Life
#Literature
#My Life
#Perfect
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
- James Frey
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#Change
#Impact
#Live
#People
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
- James Frey
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#Fiction
#Most
#Nonfiction
#Pure
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.
- James Frey
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#Fear
#Life
#Live
#Love
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
- James Frey
#America
#Culture
#Practice
#Religion
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
- James Frey
#Art
#Feel
#Me
#Painting
#Thinking
The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
- James Frey
#Book
#Challenges
#Long
#Matter
#Story
I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.
- James Frey
#Always
#How
#Lived
#Outlaw
#Wanted
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
- James Frey
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#Contemporary Art
#Freedom
#Rules
I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.
- James Frey
#Alive
#Beautiful
#I Am
#Life
#Sad
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