Dystopian Author Quotes

Jonathan Lethem 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 […]

Jonathan Lethem Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Jonathan Lethem I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction – I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By […]

Jonathan Lethem It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

Jonathan Lethem You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

Jonathan Lethem When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode… I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as […]

Jonathan Lethem My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

Jonathan Lethem But the day I can’t shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I’m washed up for keeps.

Jonathan Lethem I’m gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know […]