Jonathan Ames Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

  Jonathan Ames

  Tennis, Sixteen, Complicated

  6 Copy quote

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Book, Way, Feels

  "Bored To Death creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Growing Up, America, Wealth

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Jonathan Ames

  Moving, Age, Connections

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing

  "Jonathan Ames Talks HBO’s “Bored To Death,” Life In Brooklyn, And Wanting To Be Like Matt Damon". Interview with David Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.

  Jonathan Ames

  Lonely, Loneliness, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Ames

  Children, Adventure, Games

  "This Ames is True". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on the art; but it's so hard to do anything in life, trapped as we are in our bodies, that is purely selfless for others... somehow the self is always involved.

  Jonathan Ames

  Art, Self, Names

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Ames

  Hurt, Writing, People

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Want, Divulge, Written

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Ames

  Struggle, Book, Class

  "Jonathan Ames: The X-rated Woody Allen". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Ames

  Book, Mind, Said

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Past

  4 Copy quote

• I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

  Jonathan Ames

  New York, Distance, Parent

  4 Copy quote

• I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.

  Jonathan Ames

  Underwear

  4 Copy quote

• In fact, I have no hobbies. The only thing I like to do in life is to go to the Russian Baths in Manhattan. I also like to watch sports on TV, and I like to read books. So that's it - Russian Baths, sports, and books.

  Jonathan Ames

  Sports, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• There's no shortage of material in life.

  Jonathan Ames

  Shortage, Materials

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Ames

  Mother, Book, Writing

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Want, Reason, Tweet

  4 Copy quote

• My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me that being a writer could be a romantic and adventurous position. Previously, I had thought I would be a tennis pro, giving lessons at a local club. I thought that would be a good life, and it might have been.

  Jonathan Ames

  Teacher, Good Life, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Jew, Acknowledge

  "Jonathan Ames Gave a Seemingly Drunk, Definitely Insane Speech This Weekend". www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Ames

  New York, Parent, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Ames

  Beautiful, Book, Role Models

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Self, People, Perception

  4 Copy quote

• I promote my own self-hatred.

  Jonathan Ames

  Self, Hatred, Self Hatred

  "Never Boring: The Curious Case Of Jonathan Ames" by Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 04, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 3

First

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin