I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I’m part of the human world. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction – I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time’s arrow, I keep myself sane. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents’ friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
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 from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction – by skipping the parts that bored me. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
It’s now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren’t so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he’s a poet in black and white. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
I’ve never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken’s head off in a sideshow. Jonathan Lethem Read Quote
