Quotes by Mark Leyner - Page 1

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.
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It's in great joy that we grasp truth.
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Great Joy
Joy
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I've always been entranced with theater.
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I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.
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Animated
Generosity
Spirit
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I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them.
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Done
I Can
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I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
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Adults
Anarchist
Kind
Adult
Adult Life
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My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.
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Fashion
Ideas
Media
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I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.
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Apocalyptic
Outlook
Walks
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I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."
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Games
Memories
Thinking
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.
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Bleak
Outlook
Worse
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I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
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Looks
Manuscripts
Yards
Manuscript
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The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.
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Interesting
Interesting Things
Mind
Travel Mind Your
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My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
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Delight
Reader
Theatrical
Trying
Somewhat
Readers
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I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.
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Stage
Way
Wonder
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I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.
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Art
Games
Play
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Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!
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Dope
Opinion
Wanted
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I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.
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Self
Thinking
Trying
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One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.
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Enthusiastic
Hollywood
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Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.
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Extremity
People
Thinking
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I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.
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Belittle
Fun
Interesting
Parody
Thinking
Try
Simply
Disparage
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'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life.
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Babe
Born
Certainty
Reading
Solitary
Absolute
Writer
Life Love Happy
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“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.
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Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.
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Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.
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Comedy
Interesting
Thinking
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As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.
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Conform
Narrative
Style
Trying
World
As Far As
Experiencing
Styles
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My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.
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Father
Husband
My Own
Notion
Son
Subversive
All-Out
Male
Generally
Human Being
Tends
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In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.
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Personality
Struggle
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I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort of buzz about something I did and sort of saying, "Get that guy that writes the crazy stuff in here."
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Crazy
Thinking
Writing
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When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.
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Humor
Believe
Impossible
Impossible Things
Intuitive
Seductive
Sensibility
Teach
Leads
Tends
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You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have a gatling gun for a mouth, and if that's a diary you're producing from your cleavage, I'm leaving.
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Gun
Leaving
Parent
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People have no idea how much work it is for a man to produce an ejaculation. You have this seminal vesicle churning out this fluid, the prostate gland producing an alkaline solution. It's like having five iron chefs in your crotch working to cook up this stuff.
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Men
Chef
People
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People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.
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Believe
Easier
Imaginary
Novelists
Thinking
Writing
Life Great Believe
Conceive
Memoirs
Participate
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I think as I have gotten older, my feelings about my role in the culture as a writer, and me specifically, has changed, and has become more degraded and marginalized. This may be a more personal and psychological than a sociological insight, but I feel more vulnerable.
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Culture
Feelings
Thinking
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I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.
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Book
Dictator
Infatuation
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I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.
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Book
Grandparent
Typical
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When you are a child, you often stare too closely at the wrong thing. I remember the first time I was taken to Yankee Stadium. Someone had spilled something sweet earlier in the day and the ground was covered with ants. I spent the whole game staring at the ants, and that was more fascinating than the game.
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Children
Sweet
Taken
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So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.
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