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Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
- Jay McInerney
#Did
#Know
#Through
#Trade
#World
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
- Jay McInerney
#About
#After
#Day
#Death
#Hearing
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
#Bad Luck
#Bad
#Generation
#Luck
#Who
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
- Jay McInerney
#Black
#Meat
#New
#Seafood
#White
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
- Jay McInerney
#About
#American
#Politician
#Say
#Some
I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
- Jay McInerney
#Like
#Living
#Rather
#University
#World
I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.
- Jay McInerney
#Head
#Imagine
#Inside
#Love
#Woman
You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.
- Jay McInerney
#Beautiful
#God
#New
#True
#Village
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
- Jay McInerney
#Autonomous
#Imagination
#Mine
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
- Jay McInerney
#Arise
#Happen
#Interesting
#Me
#Surprise
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
#Culture
#Feel
#Gossip
#Life
#Purpose
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
#Afraid
#Fraud
#Hope
#Me
#People
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.
- Jay McInerney
#Love
#Still
#Why
#Wife
#Woman
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
#Deep
#Dig
#Like
#Type
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
- Jay McInerney
#Four
#Marry
#Romantic
#Times
#You
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