Jonathan Franzen's Profile
Brief about Jonathan Franzen: By info that we know Jonathan Franzen was born at 1959-08-17. And also Jonathan Franzen is American Novelist.
Some Jonathan Franzen's quotes. Goto "Jonathan Franzen's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Book, Enjoy, WritingI was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
Tags: Book, Second, WaysIt 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.
Tags: Change, End, LifeIt'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.
Tags: Realize, Security, Step's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
Tags: Age, Happy, SuccessThe Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
Tags: Background, Life, MusicThe real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
Tags: Pleasure, Real, WritingI 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.
Tags: Next, Seriously, ThemselvesI 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.
Tags: Greatest, Life, WorkI 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.
Tags: Hard, Rather, WriteI 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.
Tags: Child, Older, ParentsI 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.
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