“I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books quite heartlessly, and sometimes found that readers were very upset by it.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookSometimesCharacterReadingFateUpsetPretendingSentimentalSucker Author:Jay McInerney
“The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art or music irrelevant. In fact, I think that literature and art help us to understand - sometimes they provide narratives and metaphors for understanding history, for understanding recent catastrophes.” ThinkingArtSometimesHelpingLiteratureUnderstandingMetaphorSeptemberCatastropheIrrelevant20th CenturySeptember 11September 11th Author:Jay McInerney
“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.” ThinkingWantSometimesFearDifferencesEyelashesWidth Book:How It Ended Source: How It Ended
“Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.” ThinkingSometimesTurnsSixPagesItems Author:Jay McInerney
