James Frey Quotes

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

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

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

I love the process of being alone in a room.

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.

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.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

You don't have to follow anybody's rules.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there's some other ways.