Jonathan Ames Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

  Jonathan Ames

  Coffee, Writing, Drink

• I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. Wodehouse piece of advice: "Try to give pleasure with every sentence."

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.

  Jonathan Ames

  Wise, Writing, Kind

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

• No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Just Friends, May

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

• Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would write non-fiction, they often accused me of exaggeration and fictionalization.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

• 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

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Landscape, Action

• Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. But I try. I like to make things. It's a way to stay busy during one's ephemeral and confusing life.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Thinking, Long

• 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

• 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

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