Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.
Jonathan LethemYou donโt have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.
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 LethemIt was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
Jonathan Lethem