Being 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 LethemConsensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
Jonathan LethemTo the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
Jonathan LethemI learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan LethemI never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.
Jonathan Lethem