Dystopian Author Quotes

Jonathan Lethem I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don’t approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, […]

Jonathan Lethem I’d excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again… The energy […]

Jonathan Lethem I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in […]

Jonathan Lethem The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My […]

Jonathan Lethem What’s lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things […]

Jonathan Lethem I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Jonathan Lethem Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

Jonathan Lethem It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Jonathan Lethem The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn’t.