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Write 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…
- The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make…
- Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write…
- I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm…
- It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's…
- I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to…
- I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
- I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was…
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