Jonathan Ames Quotes

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

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

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.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

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.

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

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.

I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

There's no shortage of material in life.

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

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

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.

I promote my own self-hatred.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

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.

It seems like the original 'Star Trek' could have gone on longer.

A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.

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.

I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.

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

Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

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.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

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

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

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

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

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

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

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.