Top 31 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

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.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

It was good while it was good.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.