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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
way wonder stage
I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.
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."
unique hollywood enthusiastic
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.