Top 31 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

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.

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

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

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.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

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

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.