James Frey Quotes

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

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.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

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.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

...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.

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

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.

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

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?

Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

Stay. Fight. Live. Take it. Cry. Cry. Cry.

In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.