Quotes by Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen
American novelist and essayist
Alive from: 1959-
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Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!
Source: De correcties 324 -
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays (2007) 87 -
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance.
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Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Source: Farther Away: Essays (2012) 40 -
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
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I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.
Source: De correcties (2010) -
Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
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Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.
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What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
Source: De correcties 263
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