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Popularity has become its own justification (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
I hate that word dysfunction (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
The figure of my father looms large in my imagination (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
You see more sitting still than chasing after (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
It’s healthy to say uncle when your bone’s about to break (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
The writer’s life is a life of revisions (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
You’re either reading a book or you’re not (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
I’m not too concerned what happens to my books after I’m dead. But I am very concerned by what’s going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays. (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation. (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
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. (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
I can’t stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don’t believe that everything that’s wrong with the world has a cure. (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
There’s a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else’s work in the morning; it’s as if stillness experiences pain in being broken. (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
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. (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn’t write nonfiction until 1994 (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money. (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)
He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for Lalitha, amounted to little more than flight from circumstance. He and Patty couldn’t live together and couldn’t imagine living apart. Each time he thought they’d reached the unbearable breaking point, it turned out that there was still further they could go without breaking (Jonathan Franzen Quotes)