Jay McInerney Quotes

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.

Jay McInerney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingStoryLanguageStorytelling

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Jodi Picoult

CriticismLearnYouTakeGiveGet

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maxwell Maltz

OpportunityYourselfFreeFeelYou

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

Anand Giridharadas

TechnologyBestWorldIndiaMap

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

Stephen Lang

FunYouDownSettleStageRole

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

Stella McCartney

ChildrenMeHusbandShipDriving

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

Tom Kite

WaterCareGolfTake CareYouNeed

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

LonelinessIsolationFriendsIndia

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

Loretta Napoleoni

PositiveFutureHistoryPlayWill

The creation of a consumer agency, structured similarly to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, levels the playing field. It gives consumers a powerful advocate at the federal level.

Lisa Madigan

PowerfulCreationOfficeAdvocate

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.

Janice Dickinson

I AmThinkYouOver-The-TopAm

The Coen brothers are amazing; they're special.

Domhnall Gleeson

AmazingSpecialBrothersCoen

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

Branford Marsalis

MusicWordsYouMorePointAnything

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