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Jonathan Lethem Quotes

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Yes! I’m the slowest comic-book writer on Earth  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) Yes! I’m the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It’s impossible  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) It was good while it was good  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) For me, music is sort of the art that I can’t incorporate into my person the way I want to  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can’t really make it. It’s like a car I can’t drive  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode. I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) There’s something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything’s neat and tidy. In America everybody’s already wandering around lost  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) Tourette’s is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you’ve ever been it you know the answer  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) 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 stuff, to human expressivity... it’s a safe enclosure  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I’m still looking at it a little bit like a technician  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) Reading and writing are the same thing; it’s just one’s the more active and the other’s the more passive. They flow into each other.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I don’t write about anything I don’t love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We’re all nerds, on one subject or another.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I’m hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I’m not too embarrassed to say I’m the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I don’t want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn’t interest me. I want everything to be essential.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) 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 Quotes) I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don’t approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. And scissors - that’s beyond the pale.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) The past is still visible. The buildings haven’t changed, the layout of the streets hasn’t changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.  (Jonathan Lethem Quotes)
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