Jay McInerney Quotes

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.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

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.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

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.

Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.