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Top 30 Mark Leyner Quotes (2025 Update)

Mark Leyner Quote: “I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.”

1. “I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.”

— Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “And I still believe that there are two basic kinds of people – people who cultivate the narcissistic delusion of being watched at all times through the viewfinder of a camera, and people who cultivate the paranoid delusion of being watched at all times through the high-powered optics of a sniper’s rifle, and I think I fall – and have always fallen – into this latter category.”

3. “And I still believe that there are two basic kinds of people – people who cultivate the narcissistic delusion of being watched at all times through the viewfinder of a camera, and people who cultivate the paranoid delusion of being watched at all times through the high-powered optics of a sniper’s rifle, and I think I fall – and have always fallen – into this latter category.”

— Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person’s sensibility. It’s an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it’s intuitive.”

7. “When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person’s sensibility. It’s an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it’s intuitive.”

— Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner Quote: “I’m in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to “pressurize” the novel in some way I’ve never considered before.”

8. “I’m in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to “pressurize” the novel in some way I’ve never considered before.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.”

10. “I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.”

11. “The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.”

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

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Mark Leyner Quote: “It’s in great joy that we grasp truth.”

13. “It’s in great joy that we grasp truth.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell – they have that look.”

14. “I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell – they have that look.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of “playfulness.””

15. “I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of “playfulness.””

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Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and especially between writers and readers of autobiography. The reader of an autobiography consumes the life of the author, and the author, in turn, consumes the life of the reader, that portion of it surrendered to reading, or listening to, the autobiography.”

18. “I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and especially between writers and readers of autobiography. The reader of an autobiography consumes the life of the author, and the author, in turn, consumes the life of the reader, that portion of it surrendered to reading, or listening to, the autobiography.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.”

19. “I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “My idea with my work is always to fashion something that’s impossible to transpose into any other media.”

20. “My idea with my work is always to fashion something that’s impossible to transpose into any other media.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “There is something unspeakably consoling in one’s own smile. In that reflection, you can discern the face of yourself as a child and the face of yourself as a corpse. And in this moment, all the fundamental antinomies are reconciled – the sacred and the profane, the analyst and the analysand, the celebrated success and the abject failure. The pilot and the passenger. Writer and reader. Fiction and nonfiction. Past and present. And the mind that abides and the mind that is gone.”

21. “There is something unspeakably consoling in one’s own smile. In that reflection, you can discern the face of yourself as a child and the face of yourself as a corpse. And in this moment, all the fundamental antinomies are reconciled – the sacred and the profane, the analyst and the analysand, the celebrated success and the abject failure. The pilot and the passenger. Writer and reader. Fiction and nonfiction. Past and present. And the mind that abides and the mind that is gone.”

— Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner Quote: “I guess I can picture things once they’re done – I just can’t picture actually doing them.”

22. “I guess I can picture things once they’re done – I just can’t picture actually doing them.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “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.””

23. “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.””

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Mark Leyner Quote: “Although we may deplore the film’s scatological language, sexual explicitness and gratuitous gore as seemingly designed only to shock, in the manner of an angry, attention-craving child, we must remember that this movie was actually made by an angry, attention-craving child.”

24. “Although we may deplore the film’s scatological language, sexual explicitness and gratuitous gore as seemingly designed only to shock, in the manner of an angry, attention-craving child, we must remember that this movie was actually made by an angry, attention-craving child.”

— Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “I’ve always been entranced with theater.”

28. “I’ve always been entranced with theater.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “I stink, therefore I think.”

29. “I stink, therefore I think.”

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Mark Leyner Quote: “We’re so far from having any control over what happens to us, it’s not even funny. Well, that’s not true, actually. It is funny.”

30. “We’re so far from having any control over what happens to us, it’s not even funny. Well, that’s not true, actually. It is funny.”

— Mark Leyner

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