Jonathan Ames Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

  Jonathan Ames

  Humorous, Book, Laughing

• 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.

• For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

  Jonathan Ames

  Book, Way, Communicate

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

• 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

• 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.

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