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Jonathan Lethem Quotes

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books Picture Quote #1

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish Picture Quote #1

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you’re on page 300. You can’t do that with film. It just charges ahead Picture Quote #1

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It’s all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious Picture Quote #1

What I’m constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language Picture Quote #1

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn’t be bogged down by irrelevant details Picture Quote #1

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By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I’m hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn’t interest me. I want everything to be essential Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy Picture Quote #1

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you’re on page 300. You can’t do that with film. It just charges ahead (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It’s all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) What I’m constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn’t be bogged down by irrelevant details (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I’m hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I don’t want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn’t interest me. I want everything to be essential (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) 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 (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) 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 (Jonathan Lethem Quotes) 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 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 Quotes)

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