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Nowadays there is really only one habit of highly effective people: Don't fall behind with email.
— Jonathan Franzen
Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.
— Jonathan Franzen
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
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.
— Jonathan Franzen
Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.
— Jonathan Franzen
Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless.
— Jonathan Franzen
Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
The interesting people are always immoderate.
— Jonathan Franzen
She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.
— Jonathan Franzen
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
— Jonathan Franzen
What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
— Jonathan Franzen
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
— Jonathan Franzen
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
If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
— Jonathan Franzen
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
— Jonathan Franzen
Respectless and depraved, maybe. But happily respectless, happily depraved.
— Jonathan Franzen
I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but
— Jonathan Franzen
The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn't do today really could be put off until tomorrow.
— Jonathan Franzen
The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.
— Frank Wedekind
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— Jonathan Franzen
Among novelists I know, no one is more ambitious than I am.
— Jonathan Franzen
I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.
— Jonathan Franzen
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
— Jonathan Franzen
The weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida
— Jonathan Franzen
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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— Jonathan Franzen
It's like having one red sock in a load of white laundry. One red sock, and nothing is ever white again.
— Jonathan Franzen
She was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.
— Jonathan Franzen
I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.
— Jonathan Franzen
And Pip wanted to do good, if only for lack of better ambitions.
— Jonathan Franzen
You're either reading a book or you're not.
— Jonathan Franzen
She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all.
— Jonathan Franzen
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
Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense.
— Jonathan Franzen
But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.
— Jonathan Franzen
Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside.
— Jonathan Franzen