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All paths lead nowhere choose one with heart...

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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Allen Lethem
Harry Conklin
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Nowhere

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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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I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
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...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?
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Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.
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It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
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The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.
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I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.
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Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
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Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.
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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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I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.
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I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.
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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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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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I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
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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.
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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.
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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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