Literary Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image ““So many Jonathans . A plague of literary Jonathans .”” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Literary
“The greatest fear of Jonathan is the love he feels for his sister. ” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“How often had she wondered what would have happened if she'd remained with Jonathan? Not often, but regularly over the years. It was impossible… — Michael Stein Copy Share Image
“Jonathan closed his eyes. Oh, God, it’s not the way I had things planned. But then, what of real, lasting value ever is?” — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
“Considering the number of ghastly love poems that had been written and which seemed fairly clearly a waste of everyone's time, Jonathan couldn't help… — James P. Blaylock Copy Share Image
“I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first and everything… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“You might ask if I loved Jonathan for his beauty, and I would answer: that is a pointless question, for his great, uncommon beauty… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed to me… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“When God finished putting together Dicky Roper, He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He ran up our Jonathan to restore… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because I had… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
