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
The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — 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
So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm… — 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
