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Jonathan Franzen Quotes & Sayings
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24 entries tagged including 8 subtopics.
Last updated May 2024
Jonathan Franzen Topics
Dependence
Idealism
Marriage
Growth
Integrity
Reading
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Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive...my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
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Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
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When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
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We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
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's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
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It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.
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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
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It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
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If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
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I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
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I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
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I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
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I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.
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I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
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I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
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I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
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I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.
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