Jay McInerney Quotes
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
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.
If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.
Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.
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.
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
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.
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
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.
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.
The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.
The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcotics squad. We're soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs.
Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.