Film Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

— Jonathan Lethem

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.”

— Jonathan Lethem

Life is fundamentally up for grabs

— Jonathan Lethem

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

— Jonathan Lethem

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural…

— Jonathan Lethem

“If. If Mingus Rude could be kept in this place, kept somehow in Dylan's pocket, in his stinging, smudgy hands, then summer wouldn't give…

— Jonathan Lethem

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.”

— Jonathan Lethem

“There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.”

— Jonathan Lethem

“Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into…

— Jonathan Lethem

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.”

— Jonathan Lethem

“The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so…

— Jonathan Lethem

“May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?”

— Jonathan Lethem