Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Allen Lethemis an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 February 1964
CountryUnited States of America
loneliness resentment companion
To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
way bluffs destination
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
moving sky car
Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.
growing-up cities missing
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.
heart reality mad
My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.
heart my-heart elevators
My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
self self-pity pity
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
couple people guy
Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
home doe alternatives
...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?
apology mirrors want
Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror
stupid eye people
Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.
book earth comic-book
Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
hippie artist rights
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
book good-luck way
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.