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Jonathan Lethem Quotes

American - Writer | February 19, 1964 -

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

Jonathan Lethem

Me Way Write Bored Fiction Read

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.

Jonathan Lethem

Love Me Energy Think Literature

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.

Jonathan Lethem

Work Chicken More Never Freak Head

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

Jonathan Lethem

Deep Fans Nerds Just Neurotic Needy

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

Jonathan Lethem

Writing Seriously Begin Paint Order

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

Jonathan Lethem

Fiction Arts Filmmaker Something

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

Jonathan Lethem

Good Luck Good Luck Building Result

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