I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human… — 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
I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it. — 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
