Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.
Jay McInerneyThe most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
Jay McInerneyI think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books quite heartlessly, and sometimes found that readers were very upset by it.
Jay McInerneySometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
Jay McInerney