Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner
Mark Leyneris an American postmodernist author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
crazy writing thinking
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."
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.
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.
thinking people trying
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.
thinking interesting comedy
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.
believe writing thinking
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.
absolute born certainty life love reading solitary
'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.
ask bodies cars compared medical people questions rite tend worked
People tend to know so little about their bodies as compared to their cars or their laptops, ... When I worked in a pharmacy in Washington, D.C., people would ask me medical questions all the time. I was just a 22-year-old cashier at Rite Aid.
outlook time worse
I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.
original sell sit stroke three
This wasn't calculated. We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.
original sell sit stroke three
This wasn't calculated, ... We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.
fashion ideas media
My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.
theater
I've always been entranced with theater.