Best Jonathan Franzen Sayings
- If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven and there's talk… Fundamental
- I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. Certain
- I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her. All
- For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance. Balance
- The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again. Belong
- I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them. Defined
- I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. Entitlement
- How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to… Been
- Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint… Article
- The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things… Animal
- It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. Asleep
- Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… Access
- Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our… Ache
- Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. Better
- She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so… Apples
- Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm… Blanket
- What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive. Agreeable
- It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break. Bones
- So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said. American
- It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. Anyone
- And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be… Cool
- It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an… Age
- 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… Any
- It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds. Clock
- Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings… Antithesis
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