Quotes by Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Certainty In Life

Reading

Writing

Actually what’s worse than a dog’s mouth is a cat’s mouth. They’re not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don’t conform to my style of experiencing the world.

Style

Trying

World

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

Animated

Generosity

Spirit

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell – they have that look.

Looks

Manuscripts

Yards

I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.

Apocalyptic

Outlook

Walks

I guess I can picture things once they’re done – I just can’t picture actually doing them.

Done

I Can

I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.

Book

Dictator

Infatuation

I think as I have gotten older, my feelings about my role in the culture as a writer, and me specifically, has changed, and has become more degraded and marginalized. This may be a more personal and psychological than a sociological insight, but I feel more vulnerable.

Culture

Feelings

Thinking

I think I’m a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he’s being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

Self

Thinking

Trying

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Adults

Anarchist

Animated

Apocalyptic

Art

Believe

Book

Certainty In Life

Chef

Children

Comedy

Crazy

Culture

Delight

Dense

Dictator

Done

Dope

Dots

Enthusiastic

Fashion

Father

Feelings

Fun

Games

Garden

Generosity

Grandparent

Great Joy

Gun

Hollywood

Hot

Husband

I Can

Ideas

Impossible Things

Infatuation

Interesting

Interesting Things

Joy

Kind

Leaving

Looks

Manuscripts

Media

Memories

Men

Mind

Names

Opinion

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Quotes by Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Actually what’s worse than a dog’s mouth is a cat’s mouth. They’re not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don’t conform to my style of experiencing the world.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell – they have that look.

I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.

I guess I can picture things once they’re done – I just can’t picture actually doing them.

I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.

I think as I have gotten older, my feelings about my role in the culture as a writer, and me specifically, has changed, and has become more degraded and marginalized. This may be a more personal and psychological than a sociological insight, but I feel more vulnerable.

I think I’m a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he’s being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

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