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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.
Jonathan Ames
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Jonathan Ames
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 23
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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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I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
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It seems like the original 'Star Trek' could have gone on longer.
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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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There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
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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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There's no shortage of material in life.
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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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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.
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To write about a place, you have to live there.
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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 enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. Wodehouse piece of advice: Try to give pleasure with every sentence.
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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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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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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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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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I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
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My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me that being a writer could be a romantic and adventurous position. Previously, I had thought I would be a tennis pro, giving lessons at a local club. I thought that would be a good life, and it might have been.
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It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
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Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
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