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
always-trying long humanity
The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.
writing conflict dramatic
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
faces disappear stay-with-me
Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.
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.
world force said
Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
morning children laughter
There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.
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.
strong men thinking
I think men who can cry are strong men
whole-life i-can whole
I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.
fighting winning order
I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.
pain people trying
And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.
dream way impossible
Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
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.
diversity unconventional horror
L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.