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
book writing cities
I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.
hands needs may
And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.
fighting complicated embrace
About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.
hipster heart skulls
Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
book writing thinking
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.
inspirational strength inspiring
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
get-well heal million-little-pieces
The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
believe eye heart
When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.
god
The first thing I said was, 'Oh my God,'
altered book details
All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.
book dramatic ebb great million stories tension
A Million Little Pieces. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require.
You don't have to follow anybody's rules.
lying lied needed
Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
light blue ice
I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy. The sun is up and the sky is blue empty blue light blue clear blue. I would drink the sky if I could drink it, drink it and celebrate it and let it fill me and become me. I am getting better. Empty and clear and light and blue. I am getting better.