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