James Frey
James Frey
James Christopher Freyis an American writer and the founder and CEO of Full Fathom Five, a transmedia production company responsible for the young adult series "The Lorien Legacies", the first book of which, I Am Number Four, was made into a feature film by DreamWorks Studios...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 September 1969
CountryUnited States of America
writing thinking important
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.
cry feels
She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.
responsibility people disease
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.
suicide thinking sin
I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.
writing voice trying
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.
whole-life i-can whole
I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.
strong men thinking
I think men who can cry are strong men
depressing believe eye
I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.
jobs writing might
Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.
hate humans
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
strong faces enough
I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.
fall fighting practice
Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
way bother compartmentalizing
I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.
dirty mushrooms want-something
I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.