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.
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college. - Jonathan Ames
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
- Jonathan Ames
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. - Jonathan Ames
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge t… - Jonathan Ames
Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge t…
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. - Jonathan Ames
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.
I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself. - Jonathan Ames
I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.
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. W… - Jonathan Ames
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. W…
Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. - Jonathan Ames
Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write. - Jonathan Ames
I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment. - Jonathan Ames
I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
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