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For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.
“For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.”
— Jonathan Ames · Authors
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“For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.”
“Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's very easy to feel embarrassed. It's hard to be artful with it. It's like a ticker tape. It's not a forum that's worth mastering, you know?”
“The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.”
“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.”
“I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.”
“There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.”
“Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.”
“I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.”
“Authors often become identified with an item of clothing - Zadie Smith, for instance, is known for her head wraps, and Fran Lebowitz is never without a blazer - so I have taken the pre-emptive step of wearing, everywhere I go, a long black vintage trench coat lined with the fur of nutria.”
“Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily utilize Javascript to create an interactive Internet; sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail could be crippled without it.”
“Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.”
“We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.”