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Jonathan Ames Quotes

American - Author | March 23, 1964 -

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

Child Professional Athlete Tennis

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.

Good Character Teacher Myself 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.

War People Wish Go Important Kind

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

Writing Action Landscape You Seeing

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.

Me Writing Attention You Want Try

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

Live You Place Write About

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.

Me Attention Sometimes Beyond Clean

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

Moment Present Worry Now Okay Need

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

Me Want Hard Reason Anything Tweet

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?

Free Feel Easy Worth You Know

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

Me Writing Think Long Hard Because

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

Grow America You Wealth Never Up

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