111 Quotes by Jonathan Ames

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.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... [that] gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

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

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

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.

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

There's no shortage of material in life.