Quotes Jonathan Franzen

And let me step back here and say that I was a very late kid...

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book....

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

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who t...

I hate that word dysfunction....

I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person,...

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

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the p...

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on mysel...

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded ...

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. A...

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few...

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of s...

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interes...

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things ...

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy readi...

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and...

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to ...

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by it...

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life...

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering h...

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally....

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representa...