Jonathan Ames quotes

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write. (Jonathan Ames)
I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. View quote
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I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college. View quote
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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off. View quote
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There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. View quote
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As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that. View quote
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A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape. View quote
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To write about a place, you have to live there. (Jonathan Ames)
Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth. View quote
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A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things. View quote
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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 pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained. View quote
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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 these authors through their sentences helped me. View quote
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I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place. View quote
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There's no shortage of material in life. View quote
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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 world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way. (Jonathan Ames)
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. View quote
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I promote my own self-hatred. View quote
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For me, the past is dead. Can't go back. View quote
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private. View quote
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Jonathan Ames

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Occupation: American Author
Born: March 23, 1964
Quotes count: 30