65 Quotes by Mark Leyner
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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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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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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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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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It’s in great joy that we grasp truth.
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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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And I still believe that there are two basic kinds of people – people who cultivate the narcissistic delusion of being watched at all times through the viewfinder of a camera, and people who cultivate the paranoid delusion of being watched at all times through the high-powered optics of a sniper’s rifle, and I think I fall – and have always fallen – into this latter category.
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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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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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