Top 31 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

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.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

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

It was good while it was good.

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

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

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.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.