Mark Leyner Quotes

• 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.

  Mark Leyner

  Gun, Parent, Leaving

  Mark Leyner (2012). “I Smell Esther Williams”, p.36, Vintage

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• When you are a child, you often stare too closely at the wrong thing. I remember the first time I was taken to Yankee Stadium. Someone had spilled something sweet earlier in the day and the ground was covered with ants. I spent the whole game staring at the ants, and that was more fascinating than the game.

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  Dulce, Niños, Tomado

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

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  Pensar, Gente, Intentar

  "Mark Leyner on 'War, Inc.'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.

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• Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

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  Dope, Opinion, Wanted

  Mark Leyner (2011). “The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel”, p.19, Vintage

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• I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

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  Hot, Dots, Dense

  Mark Leyner (2012). “My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel”, p.11, Vintage

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• ¿De dónde procede el nombre de manzana de Adán? La mayoría de la gente dice que se debe a la idea de que el fruto prohibido se atascó en la garganta de Adán en el Jardín del Edén. Hay un problema con esta teoría porque algunos eruditos hebreos creen que la fruta prohibida era la granada. El Corán afirma que la fruta prohibida era un plátano. Así que elijan: la manzana de Adán, la granada de Adán o el plátano de Adán. Eva claramente masticó antes de tragar.

  Mark Leyner

  Believe, Garden, Names

  Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg, M.D. (2006). “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour”, p.9, Crown Archetype

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• People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

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  Creer, Escribir, Pensar

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• The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

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  Interesting, Mind, Interesting Things

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• People have no idea how much work it is for a man to produce an ejaculation. You have this seminal vesicle churning out this fluid, the prostate gland producing an alkaline solution. It's like having five iron chefs in your crotch working to cook up this stuff.

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  Men, People, Chef

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them.

  Mark Leyner

  Done, I Can

  Mark Leyner (1997). “The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel”, Harmony

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• I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.

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  Book, Infatuation, Dictator

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.

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  Book, Grandparent, Typical

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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• It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

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  Joy, Great Joy

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• I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

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  Yards, Looks, Manuscripts

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• I think as I have gotten older, my feelings about my role in the culture as a writer, and me specifically, has changed, and has become more degraded and marginalized. This may be a more personal and psychological than a sociological insight, but I feel more vulnerable.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Culture

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

  Mark Leyner

  Thinking, Interesting, Comedy

  Interview with Brian Joseph Davis, www.believermag.com.

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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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  Memories, Thinking, Games

  "The Rumpus Book Club chat with Mark Leyner". Live chat (edited by Brian Spears), therumpus.net. March 16, 2016.

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• One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

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  Unique, Hollywood, Enthusiastic

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

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  Fun, Thinking, Interesting

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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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  Believe, Impossible Things, Seductive

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• En cuanto a lo que hago, mi valor como escritor no es, desde luego, intentar recapitular una forma del siglo XIX. Ciertos estilos narrativos no se ajustan a mi forma de experimentar el mundo.

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  Style, Trying, World

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• "Et Tu, Babe" nació de mi absoluta certeza de que la vida de un escritor era solitaria e insular, y yo era feliz con eso. Me encanta leer y escribir, es toda mi vida.

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  Reading, Writing, Certainty In Life

  "Mark Leyner On “War, Inc.”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.

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• Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.

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  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

  Mark Leyner

  Generosity, Spirit, Animated

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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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  Way, Wonder, Stage

  "The Rumpus Book Club Chat With Mark Leyner". Interview with Brian Spears, therumpus.net. March 16, 2016.

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