Jonathan Ames Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Jonathan Ames quotes and sayings page 2 (60 year old author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 41 we have for him.
“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'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.”
“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 don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.”
“I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.”
“Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.”
“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.”
“I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.”
“I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.”
“As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.”
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