Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.
Jonathan Lethem Dystopian Author Quotes#73
May 4, 2020
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.
Jonathan Lethem Dystopian Author Quotes#75
May 4, 2020
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No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

Jonathan Lethem

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there’s no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It’s almost masturbatory.
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