Quotes by Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

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

Helping

Sometimes

Sweet

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

Action

Landscape

Writing

After my first novel, my mother said to me, ‘Why don’t you make your writing more funny? You’re so funny in person.’ Because my first novel was rather dark. And I don’t know, but something about what she said was true. ‘Yes, why don’t I?’ Maybe I was afraid to be funny in the writing. But since then, seven books later, almost everything I’ve done has a comedic edge to it.

Book

Mother

Writing

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

Athlete

Children

Player

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.

Book

Mind

Said

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.

Book

Class

Struggle

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

Book

Feels

Way

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.

Book

Communicate

Way

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

Past

From age 23 to 44 – I’m 45 now – I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference – I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.

Aunt

Differences

Two

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Absurd

Acknowledge

Acting

Action

Add

Adventure

Age

Alarms

America

Animal

Art

Association

Athlete

Aunt

Baby

Beautiful

Book

Brain

Car

Caviar

Character

Childhood

Children

Class

Cliffs

Coffee

College

Communicate

Complicated

Confused

Connections

Cutting

Destiny

Differences

Difficult

Distance

Divulge

Dog

Doors

Drink

Ego

Facts

Fall

Feelings

Feels

Fleas

Games

Generations

Giving

Goal

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Quotes by Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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