“The thing about this bookshelf is that each of these books is a vast experience unto itself, while also being both self-contained… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Zelmo was nearly bellowing by the time he raised his glass to the tables center. 'To the human heart!' Diners at other… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I'd underestimated him. I assumed anyone who started out gut-punching you in an elevator couldn't have all that much else in his… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved. — 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
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“A shadow strolled past the car, indifferent to our curbside melodrama. This was my second time imperiled in a a parked vehicle… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I was famously in love with a woman who had no time to spare, not even a breath, for she dwelled in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your… — 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
