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

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Jonathan Ames
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 23
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The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on
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How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
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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.
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Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would write non-fiction, they often accused me of exaggeration and fictionalization.
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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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I certainly want to portray the importance of friendship. I had noticed in movies and TV shows that friends often treated one another terribly, and my friends, the few I have, are never cruel to me or unkind, so I wanted to convey that.
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As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
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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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Nothing wrong with changing your mind. That's a very unwaffling thing to say: Nothing wrong... Who am I to say that there's nothing wrong with it? Maybe something is wrong with changing your mind. Anyway, love is very, very difficult. I love. But probably because I hate myself on some deep, sick level, it makes loving difficult. But I do try.
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One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.
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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.
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