Jonathan Ames

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

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People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

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As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

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I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

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I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.

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

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Quotes by Jonathan Ames