When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going. James Frey More Quotes by James Frey More Quotes From James Frey I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. James Frey artist want thinking America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion. James Frey religious practice order When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons. James Frey mercenary screenwriters reason Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction. James Frey nonfiction book fiction My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle. James Frey wife fighting struggle You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal. James Frey goal overcoming character I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things. James Frey destroying want running Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. James Frey accurate interest writing 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. James Frey writing book world I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can. James Frey want-something mushrooms dirty I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going. James Frey style writing book If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways. James Frey writing book negative When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going. James Frey fighting idols boys I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. James Frey writing people negative Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe. James Frey beautiful believe thinking I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't. James Frey depressing eye believe I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose. James Frey million-little-pieces dazzle rose Stay. Fight. Live. Take it. Cry. Cry. Cry. James Frey cry fighting Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it. James Frey fighting hurt past The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces. James Frey pieces broken men
