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" If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it. "

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" I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be. "

Jay McInerney

Think

Big

" Mine is not an autonomous imagination. "

" Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item. "

" You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York. "

" I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work. "

" You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded. "

Jay McInerney

You

Sound

" I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times. "

" Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved. "

" 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. "

" It's the cynics who never get married. "

" I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not. "

" I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university. "

" I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon. "

" There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that. "

" My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. "

" The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking. "

" There aren't many shy writers left. "

" Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits. "

" There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention. "

Jay McInerney

Worthy

World

" I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible. "