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Good Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those…
- Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.
- Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
- It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
- 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…
- 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…
- The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered…
- Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had…
- What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him…
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