Jonathan Lethem Quotes

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.

Jonathan Lethem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1964

Topics

WorkMeInformationFictionArts

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Michael Arad

PushYouBackAlwaysWhateverPut

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

John Schneider

FunOpinionSomeoneYouPersonTell

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

John Shelton Reed

SmileMoreThanOtherSoutherners

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

WorkNatureAgeArtYouthGift

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

Mary Harris Jones

FightWhateverYourLadylike

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

Mike Oldfield

YourselfSelfLawyersNowSayGet

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.

Michelle Paver

ExperienceChildBookReading

I don't think I really have the respect that I think I deserve.

Luke Rockhold

RespectThinkDeserveI ThinkReally

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Jasper Johns

PaintingDoingDrawingSomething

I remember in high school, I ate some nachos probably like an hour, half-hour before the game, and it's kind of gross, but a little of it came up while I was running - you know you get that burp - and I literally coughed at the same time, and it got caught in my nose, and it was during the game.

Chris Bosh

TimeSchoolGameHigh SchoolYou

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

Chris Robinson

MusicEarlySayNinetiesBeenVery

This digital world is what you make of it in the end.

Ciara

WorldEndYouDigitalIn The End

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