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Jay McInerney Quotes

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1955

Topics

Day Death Hearing Been Published

There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the height of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.

Style Voice Career I Can Nothing

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

Confidence Someone Poverty You Need

My vision for the future of social transportation is one that places more value on information and community over a physical product. Move over, multi-billion-dollar high-speed rail infrastructure and welcome, social information-based solutions.

Future Community Vision Welcome More

Playing a best of five-set match, you can always bounce back, even if you lose the first set.

Best You Lose Back First Always

I've played a lot of wide-eyed kids.

Kids Played Lot

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Life Father Mother Time Me You

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

Want Up Curve Throw Chew Glove

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Failure Forget True Self-Esteem Must

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

Failure Great Corruption You Look

I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Time Bullying Creative School Hard

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Wisdom Research Think Outside Box

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

Smart Camera You Said Talk Turn

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