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  • My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

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

    Joy   Great Joy  
  • I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

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

    Men   People   Chef  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • 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.

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

    Interview with Brian Joseph Davis, www.believermag.com.
  • The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

  • “Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

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

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

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

    Gun   Parent   Leaving  
    Mark Leyner (2012). “I Smell Esther Williams”, p.36, Vintage
  • My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

    Fashion   Media   Ideas  
    "The Rumpus Book Club chat with Mark Leyner". Live chat (edited by Brian Spears), therumpus.net. March 16, 2016.
  • I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.

  • My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

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

    "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.
  • I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them.

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

    "Mark Leyner on 'War, Inc.'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.
  • So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.

    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
  • I've always been entranced with theater.

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

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

    "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.
  • In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

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

    Art   Games   Play  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.

    Sweet   Children   Taken  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.

    Style   Trying   World  
  • I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort of buzz about something I did and sort of saying, "Get that guy that writes the crazy stuff in here."

    "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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