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I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda. (James Frey)

But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.

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

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Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

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My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

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She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.

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I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.

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There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.

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I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written. (James Frey)

The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.

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I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.

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What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

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I love the process of being alone in a room.

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Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

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L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

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Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

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I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

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We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

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I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with. (James Frey)

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.

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Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.

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I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

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To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

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James Frey

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: September 12, 1969
Quotes count: 161
Wikipedia: James Frey

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