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
struggle fighting wife
My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.
book nonfiction fiction
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
book writing world
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
thinking artist want
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
attitude writing killers
To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
bombs cloning tests
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.
execution crafts concepts
Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
character goal overcoming
You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
life-changing book writing
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
believe gay love-is
Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.
believe mean thinking
I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.
lying lied needed
Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
shopping bags novelists
Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
rooms process
I love the process of being alone in a room.