Jonathan Ames Quotes

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.

Jonathan Ames

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 23, 1964

Topics

MeWritingAttentionYouWantTry

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

Jim Rash

ChildFeelTelevisionStorytelling

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

Andy Roddick

SelfishBetterYouLookDoneSay

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

Jean-Michel Jarre

SeaMeWorldProblemsHumanityDead

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Stendhal

PleasureSpoiledDescribingOften

I hate clowns.

Tracey Ullman

HateClowns

If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.

Roelof Botha

MountainViewYouUrbanNeeds

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Judd Apatow

TimeGrowDoingYouWayTry

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

Joseph Pulitzer

DemocracyFeetWayMatterIndividual

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Deepak Chopra

InjusticeSameDefendingPassivity

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

Christopher Moore

TruthLightLiePaintingBetterYou

Writers are a superstitious cowardly lot, and we loathe learning new computer applications to do something that, let's be honest, we could accomplish equally well with pen and paper - especially when that application is as unconventional as Scrivener.

Antony Johnston

LearningPenAccomplishNewHonest

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

Sharad Pawar

GovernmentNationThingsDifferent

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