J.M. Frey Quotes

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.

...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

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.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.

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.

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

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.