Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner
Mark Leyneris an American postmodernist author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
thinking self trying
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.
believe garden names
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.
done i-can
I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them.
generosity spirit animated
I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.
book grandparent looks
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.
yards looks manuscripts
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
adults kind anarchist
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
trying delight reader
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
art games play
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.
interesting mind interesting-things
The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.
style trying world
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.
reading writing certainty-in-life
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.
memories thinking games
I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."
fun thinking interesting
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.