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Jonathan Lethem
American
Writer
Born:
Feb 19
,
1964
Book
Good
Me
Work
Writing
You
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I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
Jonathan Lethem
Ringing
Silent
Bear
Skull
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
Jonathan Lethem
Politics
Good
You
Black
Black And White
Poet
White
Wayne
Giant
John
John Ford
More
John Wayne
He
Like
Looks
Learn
Accept
Ford
His
Film
Actor
Watch
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.
Jonathan Lethem
Love
Me
Matter
Energy
Gone
Think
Honestly
More
Most
Comics
Nostalgia
Literature
Film
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
Jonathan Lethem
Religion
Rights
Values
Parents
Diversity
Overwhelming
Virtue
Our
Worshipped
Those
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Ideals
Were
Arts
Movement
Belief
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
Jonathan Lethem
Good
Great
You
Writing
Space
Long
Holding
Virtual
Benefit
Head
Like
Narratives
Lots
Get
Plan
Your
Less
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
Jonathan Lethem
Writing
Translation
Summit
Kind
Fantastic
English
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Jonathan Lethem
Me
Will
Free
Expectation
Defy
Seem
Write
Generally
Expected
Want
Really
Now
It was good while it was good.
Jonathan Lethem
Good
While
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan Lethem
Me
Way
Bored
Write
Read
Learned
Parts
Fiction
Skipping
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
Jonathan Lethem
Writing
Seriously
Abandoned
Since
Begin
Order
Anymore
Paint
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.
Jonathan Lethem
Good
Result
Seen
Building
Few
Luck
Good Luck
Books
Way
Slowly
Something
Writers
Had
Allowed
Odd
Gradually
Anymore
Breakthrough
Each
Starting
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