I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness." — Mark Leyner Games Copy Share Image
I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“Are the Gods real or is Ike Karton just crazy? And the answer is: Yes.” — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!” — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it,… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Absolute certainty Copy Share Image
I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic,… — Mark Leyner Enthusiastic Copy Share Image
I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really… — Mark Leyner Comedy Copy Share Image
I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before. — Mark Leyner Books Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review… — Mark Leyner Book Copy Share Image
“And I still believe that there are two basic kinds of people--people who cultivate the narcissistic delusion of being watched at all… — Mark Leyner Delusion Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Book Copy Share Image
When you are a child, you often stare too closely at the wrong thing. I remember the first time I was taken… — Mark Leyner Baseball Copy Share Image
“I found a note he'd left behind entitled 'Ciao': One just keeps saying, 'No...No...No...' Head bowed, hat in hand, A cringing, cunning… — Mark Leyner Left behind Copy Share Image
“Why do you think I'm obsessed with this idea of giving the world an alphabet-soup enema?' (This was our code language for… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“Do it, my fellow Americans! Do it for every adolescent anomic skank genius cloistered in his room, getting cranked, rabidly humping his… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“There is something unspeakably consoling in one's own smile. In that reflection, you can discern the face of yourself as a child… — Mark Leyner Books Copy Share Image
“Bro, we're living in the Kali Yuga, a Dark Age of petite bourgeoisie ideology, a petite bourgeoisie ideology whose resources and ruses… — Mark Leyner Books Copy Share Image
“I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're… — Mark Leyner Deception Copy Share Image
“We're living in a world in which we're all survived, targeted, herded, and indoctrinated to an unprecedented degree. Our fallen, debased state… — Mark Leyner Ideology Copy Share Image
“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But,… — Mark Leyner Anal Copy Share Image
So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“...Someone can intentionally fake blindness for some secondary gain (malingering)--a prisoner who says he can't see in order to try to avoid… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“It's the same thing that makes all pop music so heartbreaking. Even when Miley Cyrus sings "So I put my hands up,… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media. — Mark Leyner Fashion Copy Share Image
