The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form.… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was late, and, yes, I was being very dented-in-the-head-mutant-hillbilly, But you... you just sat there like some shitty poem.” — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as… — Mark Leyner Culture Copy Share Image
I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie,… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“studies have failed to find any substantial evidence proving a relationship between sugar consumption and hyperactivity.” — Mark Leyner Food Copy Share Image
“The Imaginary Intern and I used to say, 'The mind going is the mind coming,' which we meant not only in terms… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized… — Mark Leyner Personality Copy Share Image
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight… — Mark Leyner Books Copy Share Image
When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and… — Mark Leyner Autobiography Copy Share Image
You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium,… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“So, Strand looked at me, and he said, 'You should write about all this someday.' And I said, 'You mean about all… — Mark Leyner Childhood Copy Share Image
“Why would we not only believe, but become eternally beholden to some unctuous car salesman who claims to be putting the lives… — Mark Leyner Car salesman Copy Share Image
“On our last mission - our "final exam" - we were airlifted to a remote region, and we parachuted directly into a… — Mark Leyner Goals Copy Share Image
I think as I have gotten older, my feelings about my role in the culture as a writer, and me specifically, has… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“If I were ever asked by some young, sensitive writer just starting out, what key lesson I've learned in life (which I'll… — Mark Leyner Aperture Copy Share Image
Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so… — Mark Leyner Cats Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end,… — Mark Leyner Art Copy Share Image
“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to… — Mark Leyner Authenticity Copy Share Image
“I also think my mom 'suffers' from something one might call Pollyanna's paranoia, an irrational suspicion that there are people out there… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
People have no idea how much work it is for a man to produce an ejaculation. You have this seminal vesicle churning… — Mark Leyner Chef Copy Share Image
“There are enigmas that we can gnaw on throughout our lives from which we derive sustenance, some kind of spiritual nourishment...I'm thinking… — Mark Leyner Enigmas Copy Share Image
