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article reminds me of a conversation had a while back (youpeople, i believe you were urging us to make up memoirs?) about memoirists taking "creative liberties." digested version, for those of you not into reading police reports as a form a procrastination,
here.
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knee hi mink, hurray! finally you graduate from lurking to commenting. i can't wait until you take the plunge and post something.
pps i refrained from posting an image of the cover (of "a million little pieces) for you, cheese with a spoon (the texture!). welcome back.
From an interview with Frey in the New York Observer back before his book came out:
"All that matters is what the feelings are and what the events are. It's not about all this trickery. When I think about writing, I have a very simple formula: Where was I? Who was I with? What happened? And how did it make me feel? Those are the only important things. It doesn't matter if I can write a sentence that's a page long or if I have 30 pages of footnotes in the back or people chuckle at the introduction page."
I'll let that quote stand as is.
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