Jonathan Lethem Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.”

“It was good while it was good.”

“It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.”

“It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.”

“I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.”

“I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”