Jonathan Ames Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Jonathan Ames quotes and sayings page 4 (60 year old author). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 41 we have for him.
“The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.”
“There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.”
“There's no shortage of material in life.”
“To write about a place, you have to live there.”
“I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.”
“I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.”
“I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.”
“I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.”
“I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.”
“Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's very easy to feel embarrassed. It's hard to be artful with it. It's like a ticker tape. It's not a forum that's worth mastering, you know?”
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