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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.

Jonathan Lethem

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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Allen Lethem
Harry Conklin
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It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.
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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
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I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.
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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 write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
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I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
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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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Reading and writing are the same thing it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.
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By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
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I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeĐ’ people are buying the whole thing.
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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.
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Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.
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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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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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Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object to look good. I won't believe in it and it won't be real to me until there's a finished book I can hold.
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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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All paths lead nowhere choose one with heart...
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