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
hearts skulls words
Sometimes skulls are thick.Sometimes hearts are vacant.Sometimes words don't work.
game good offensive
He's got a very good offensive game. He can make plays.
finally mind
It finally validated, in his mind, that he had a story to be told.
fighting complicated embrace
About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.
hands needs may
And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.
conventions
You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.
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.
faces disappear stay-with-me
Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.
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.
strong men thinking
I think men who can cry are strong men
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.