I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
