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“People cope with adversity in many different ways, ways that are deeply personal. […] My mistake […] is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me cope, and not the person who went through the experience.”

“I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require.”

-James Frey, and his reaction to the controversies over the factuality of his memoir, “A Million Little Pieces.”