Jonathan Franzen Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Jonathan Franzen quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 65 year old American novelist born on Aug 17, 1959.
“I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.”
“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 weirdness in that way.”
“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 his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.”
“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.”
“I hate that word dysfunction.”
“We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.”
“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 writer.”
“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 70-year-old man.”
“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 them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.”
“And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.”
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