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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 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... Read full biography of Jonathan Franzen → ← Ctrl 1 2 's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling. 0 The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. 0 The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. 0 We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally. 0 I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then... → 0 I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a... → 0 I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to... → 0 If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves... → 0 It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 Add a quote!


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