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22 quotes by Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel, The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His most recent novel, Freedom (2010), garnered similar praise and...
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I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

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I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in... →

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When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's... →

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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

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I hate that word dysfunction.

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I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next... →

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I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of... →

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And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

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It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or... →

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It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

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But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

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I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

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I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

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