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There's no shortage of material in life.
Jonathan Ames
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Jonathan Ames
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 23
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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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To write about a place, you have to live there.
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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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A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
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I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.
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I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.
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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 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.
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It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
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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 don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
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I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
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It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.
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Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
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I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.
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I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.
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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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I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
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Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.
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Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. But I try. I like to make things. It's a way to stay busy during one's ephemeral and confusing life.
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