I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
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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.Jonathan Lethem
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
Jonathan Lethem
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
Jonathan Lethem
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
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I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
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I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
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