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 LethemTo the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
Jonathan LethemI don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
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 LethemI 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 LethemI've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.
Jonathan Lethem