Jonathan Ames Quotes

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Jonathan Ames

Profession : Author

Birth : March 23, 1964

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.

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For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

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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 maybe a beautiful way.

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I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.

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I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

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I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.

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A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

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Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.

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To write about a place, you have to live there.

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I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

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I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

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The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

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It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

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Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

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I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.

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I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.

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I promote my own self-hatred.

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There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

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I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

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I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

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