I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
Jay McInerneyI 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.
Jay McInerneyYeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.
Jay McInerneyI think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
Jay McInerneyI was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.
Jay McInerneyTim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.
Jay McInerney