I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
Jonathan LethemI learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan LethemI don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.
Jonathan LethemOne of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
Jonathan LethemBeing blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.
Jonathan Lethem