Jonathan Lethem Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.”

“I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.”

“The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.”

“I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.”

“I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.”

“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.”