Jonathan Ames Quotes

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• I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
• 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…
• I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
• It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
• 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…
• 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.
• Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.
• The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.
• There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
• There's no shortage of material in life.
• 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…
• I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out,…
• People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
• It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain…
• I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a…
• 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 do…
• For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.
• Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
• Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the…
• When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could…

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