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

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  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

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  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

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  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)

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  Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
  Source: De correcties

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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