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Jonathan Franzen has 132 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a…
— Raymond Chandler
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The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long…
— William Faulkner
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If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.
— Robin Sharma
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Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
— Bette Greene
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It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was…
— Liza Dalby
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Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.
— Amy Carmichael
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But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing…
— Seth Godin
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The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.
— Susan Sontag
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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
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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
— Truman Capote
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