I’ve had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I’ve seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don’t offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
I’d have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn’t been able to shift into fiction. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
I don’t paint anymore. I haven’t since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We’re all nerds, on one subject or another. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it’s a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
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 virtual space. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
