It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side.… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.'… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“Aside from the possible scientific explanations for the death of ballsiness, there is an economic one, which I think may be the… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“I do think everyone would be a lot happier if we laid eggs on our own and could just have friendship and didn't need… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
“Try to think about more important things,' he said. 'Think about your soul, your character. Think about the freezer. It's a solid block of… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
“I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman’s legs. I think it must be because I’m drinking in her… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share
