#in

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

#energy #film #gone #honestly #i

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#i #ringing #silent #skull

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #begin #haven #i #order

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#artist #artists #connects #example #father

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#allowed #another #book #character #crazy

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#does #i #i think #lot #much

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. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#again #back #came #comes #energy

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#chicken #freak #geek #head #horrible

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#black #black hole #everything #hole #love