Mark Leyner Quotes

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• I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.
• I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.
• So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the…
• I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them.
• I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.
• I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
• I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
• My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
• The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.
• As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of…
• Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I…
• I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or…
• My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father,…
• People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing…
• Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to…
• When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a…
• 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, but you have…
• Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

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