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Jonathan Lethem

Novelist and essayist; National Book Critics Circle Award winner

United States · b. 1964

American novelist and essayist, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.

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Question Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work? Craft & work read 24 other answers →

So, yes, it is very hard work, and there are days where there’s something I have to do in the book, something I have to learn or put myself and the characters through that I am… That makes me fearful or sorrowful. But I do think also that this aspect of writing is over reported at the expense of the pleasurable aspect as well. If writers didn’t love to be in this space between themselves and their language, they probably wouldn’t do it. You’d give up.

Recorded The Talks, published interview, 27 March 2019 source ↗

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