American - Writer | January 13, 1955 -
It's the cynics who never get married.
Jay McInerney
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Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
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When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
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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.
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I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.
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Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'
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I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.
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Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
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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.
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Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
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The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
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