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Mark Leidner

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Mark Leidner is a Georgia-born writer of books and movies. He currently lives in California.

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?
Mark Leidner I guess the best thing is the illusion of your imaginative life mattering that it gives you. But like all illusions it eventually shatters and you're …moreI guess the best thing is the illusion of your imaginative life mattering that it gives you. But like all illusions it eventually shatters and you're left with the wreckage of a belief system instead of beliefs. But in that way it's no different than any other profession, occupation, art, or task. You might as well ask "What's the best thing about being?" The best thing about being is the pleasure the illusion of being gives, which is also the worst thing about being, since the withdrawal symptoms once the illusion of being is gone are quite harsh. But if you survive those symptoms, the pleasure of accepting your own insignificance is fairly expansive.(less)
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Mark Leidner I’m doing ok Alder. I haven’t been on Goodreads in a while. It’s strange to be back here, but not unpleasant. Thank you for the question.
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Average rating: 4.45 · 1,122 ratings · 169 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors
Beauty Was the Case That Th...
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Under the Sea
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Returning the Sword to the ...
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The Angel in the Dream of O...
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The Night Of 1,000 Murders
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21 Extremely Bad Breakups
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The Empire
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Romantic Comedies
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Willie
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Elegy for Pangaea
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Hey Mark. I forgot that I followed you on here until you posted that poem just now. Nice to see your name crop up, hope you’re well?

thank you so much for the well-wishes. entire forests have been razed and regrown and razed again since i have logged in here. i feel like an astronaut stepping onto an alien planet only to realize it’s actually the planet i’m originally from

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I’m doing ok Alder. I haven’t been on Goodreads in a while. It’s strange to be back here, but not unpleasant. Thank you for the question.
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“Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.”
― Mark Leidner, The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover
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“Lovers are the coolest their hearts beat the best & they kiss magic as hell”
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“So I told her that I loved her, not for telling me the thing she had told me, but for the courage involved in telling something like it, something that sad.”
― Mark Leidner, Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me
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“Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.”
― Mark Leidner, The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover
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“Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.”
― Jedediah Berry, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
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“The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.”
― Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection
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