Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney, Jr.is an American novelist. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 January 1955
CityHartford, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Great minds sink alike, right?
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.
I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.
You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.