Dystopian Author Quotes

Jonathan Lethem What age is a black boy when he learns he’s scary?

Jonathan Lethem Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Jonathan Lethem Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

Jonathan Lethem Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

Jonathan Lethem Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can’t really […]

Jonathan Lethem I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem I want what we all want, said Carl. “To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world to see if […]

Jonathan Lethem I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction – by skipping the parts that bored me.

Jonathan Lethem There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and […]