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Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
Jonathan Lethem
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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Allen Lethem
Harry Conklin
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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.
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I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
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I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.
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I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.
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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 try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
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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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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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I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
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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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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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Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.
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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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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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Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
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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.
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