"Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers……" — Jonathan Franzen
"Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance"
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131 Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen has 131 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had…
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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…
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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,…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly…
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Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose,
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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