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Jonathan Franzen

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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 I get irritated.


— Jonathan Franzen


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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.


— Jonathan Franzen


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


— Jonathan Franzen


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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.


— Jonathan Franzen


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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 the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.


— Jonathan Franzen


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


— Jonathan Franzen


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And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.


— Jonathan Franzen


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I hate that word dysfunction.


— Jonathan Franzen


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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 writer.


— Jonathan Franzen


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


— Jonathan Franzen


#barry #being #dave #far #funny






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Did you know about Jonathan Franzen?

It has very little to do with democracy or the will of the people. In recent years Franzen has become recognized for his purveyance of opinions on everything from social networking services such as Twitter ("the ultimate irresponsible medium") and the proliferation of e-books ("just not permanent enough") to the disintegration of Europe ("The people making the decisions in Europe are bankers. The Corrections soon became one of the decade's best-selling works of literary fiction.

His most recent novel Freedom (2010) led to a controversial appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". 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 a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and a shortlisting for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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