It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“We knew it was holy. Every sentence we cherished was sturdy and Biblical in its form, carved somehow by hand-dragged implement or… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“But we were chumps and we knew it. As makers of sentences we were practically fetal, beneath notice, unlaunched, fooling around in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“This was the time when all we could talk about was sentences, sentences—nothing else stirred us. Whatever happened in those days, whatever… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Paranoia has its downsides as an agency in daily life, or in the political sphere of collective action, which finds itself beset… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
