I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them. — Mark Leyner Doing 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
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form.… — Mark Leyner 19th century 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 Hillbilly 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
I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort… — Mark Leyner Buzz 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 Dealer 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 Extremity 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 Cleavage 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
“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
When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive… — Mark Leyner Believe 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 Think 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 Impudence 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 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
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 Belittle 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'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
“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
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Believe Copy Share Image
