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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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Jonathan Allen Lethem
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I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.
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When people call something original, 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.
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I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.
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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.
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I want what we all want, said Carl. To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
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What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.
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There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.
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My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
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One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
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The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.
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Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
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I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.
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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
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With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.
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All paths lead nowhere choose one with heart...
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How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?
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I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
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There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.
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However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.
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Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
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