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“Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.”

Quote by James Frey

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James Frey is an American writer born on September 12, 1969. Known for his memoirs, his work often delves into the complexities of human nature and the multifaceted nature of life. His book 'A Million Little Pieces' sparked controversy over its authenticity, but it provided readers with a unique perspective on memory, truth, and self-perception. more

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“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.”

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.”

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“I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.”

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“If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.”

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“You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.”

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“Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.”

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“To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.”

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“It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.”

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Book:All Over but the Shoutin'

Source: All Over but the Shoutin'

“The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.”

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