Jonathan Lethem Quotes - Page 6

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• I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Drinking, Wine

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Morning, Writing, Simple

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Target Audience, Albums, Generations

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Silence, Horror

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Emotional, Thinking, Want

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and themes and even using certain words or images recurrently in my work, no matter how much I think I'm starting fresh. But I've always admired artists who made a specific sport of trying to visit different kinds of genres or mediums or modes - not just 'western' or 'detective', but comedy/tragedy, epic and miniature, traditional/experimental.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Sports, Mean, Epic

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Song, Ipods, Records

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Crazy, Character, Rolling

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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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 realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.

  Jonathan Lethem

  People, Sulky, Buying

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

  Jonathan Lethem

  New York, Care, Punk

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Historical, Care, Really Great

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Earth, Comic Book

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Book, Character

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Want, Way

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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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.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Emotional, Stories, Kind

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Philosophical, People, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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