Quotes Jonathan Lethem

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. ...

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan....

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fa...

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull....

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19,...

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wa...

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends wer...

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre bounda...

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I see...

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction-I w...

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction...

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diag...

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, ...

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subcult...

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and p...

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back ...

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else ...

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building g...

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much mo...

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallow...

It was good while it was good....

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths o...

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I r...

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though no...

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're a...