"Sometimes I think my purpose is as a……" — Mark Leyner
"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 a ludicrous extremity."
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18 Quotes by Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- 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 -…
- I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was…
- My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work…
- The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in…
- As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th…
- Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I…
- I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of…
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