She is sitting on frozen ground wrapped in a blanket, her pale skin shining. She smiles and she stands and without words, she steps forward, opens the blanket, envelops me within it and within her and within myself. She kisses my cheek, the one not torn, she wraps me and she holds me. Her arms are thin but strong. She whispers in my ear, "I'm glad you're here.

James Frey

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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.

cloning bombs tests

I love the process of being alone in a room. by James Frey

I love the process of being alone in a room.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

bullshit pieces book

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

unconventional diversity horror

I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.

stories sex thinking

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.

always-trying humanity long

I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.

compartmentalizing bother way

Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.

writing might jobs

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

voice writing trying

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

echoes would-be past

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

instinct writing feels

I think, living in America, we're so bombarded with God all the time that in certain ways I'm making statements against that bombardment, you know? I think it's crazy. I mean, I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I still think about it. And I still write about it.

crazy writing believe

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

luck beautiful america

The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.

trying america people

People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they c... by James Frey

People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.

call-me care people

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

ambition trying two

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions. by James Frey

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

You don't have to follow anybody's rules. by James Frey

You don't have to follow anybody's rules.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

done stories believe

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

imagine care people