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
Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
It's the cynics who never get married.
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.
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.
You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
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.
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)
Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
There aren't many shy writers left.
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.