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Writing Quotes by Jonathan Lethem
- It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
- Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
- You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words…
- I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
- I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a…
- I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following…
- I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes…
- Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
- I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
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