391 Quotes by Jonathan Franzen

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.