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 LethemAs much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
Jonathan LethemI guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.
Jonathan LethemThe level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences - I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.
Jonathan Lethem