Jay McInerney Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.”

“I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.”

“Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.”

“Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.”

“Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.”

“I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.”

“I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.”

“It's the cynics who never get married.”

“Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.”

“Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.”