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Brief about Jay McInerney: By info that we know Jay McInerney was born at 1955-01-13. And also Jay McInerney is American Writer.

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You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

Tags: Read, Sound, Surprised

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

Tags: Afraid, Hope, Try

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.

Tags: Book, Learn, Successful

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.

Tags: Career, Possible, Until

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

Tags: Gossip, Life, Purpose

I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.

Tags: Big, Success, Write

I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

Tags: Crazy, Life, Mean

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.

Tags: Learned, Until, Writing

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Tags: Bad, Dangerous, Luck

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

Tags: After, Period, Trade

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.

Tags: Career, Guess, Novel

The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.

Tags: Black, May, Pretty

You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.

Tags: Beautiful, God, True

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

Tags: Good, Great, Writing

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

Tags: Almost, Moderation, Taste

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

Tags: Public, Star, Successful

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

Tags: Drink, Eat, Motto

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

Tags: Mean, Serious, Women

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

Tags: Fall, Life, Work

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Tags: Envy, Process, Writing
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