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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.
Jonathan Lethem
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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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Jonathan Allen Lethem
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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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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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The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.
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Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.
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Some people have things written all over their faces the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
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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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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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Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
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I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.
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Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
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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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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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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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I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
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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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I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.
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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
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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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