Jonathan Ames Quotes

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For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

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There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

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I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger’s meets Tourettes meets prose.

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Twitter is so severe, you know? And it’s completely for free, it’s scattershot, and it’s very easy to feel embarrassed. It’s hard to be artful with it. It’s like a ticker tape. It’s not a forum that’s worth mastering, you know?

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I don’t really recognise success. I don’t see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

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I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that’s meaningful and important to people, but that’s not my area of coverage.

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The reason it’s hard for me to tweet is I don’t want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

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Now, all writing – all the arts – are a form of ‘Pay attention to me,’ but there’s also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I’ve made. And then pay attention to me.

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Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it’s the greater wealth.

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I don’t have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

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There’s no shortage of material in life.

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I’ve always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

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It’s hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

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I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: ‘I’m okay right now.’ But I worry about all the things I’m failing at every moment.

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Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

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I’m actually much more shy and self-conscious than people’s perception of me.

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I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

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I don’t like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

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I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

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Having a show get canceled is like, ‘Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,’ you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

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I don’t laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

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For me, the past is dead. Can’t go back.

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I didn’t play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

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I don’t know that I’ve gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

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I’ve always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That’s how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

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