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Jonathan Franzen

"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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

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Donna Grant

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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Donna Grant

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

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Donna Grant

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

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Donna Grant

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

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Donna Grant

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

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Donna Grant

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

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Donna Grant

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

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Donna Grant

"I am a little bit of everything that I ve ever read or said."

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Jonathan Franzen
"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling."

Success

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

Writing

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Jonathan Franzen
"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."

Pleasure

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Jonathan Franzen
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."

Globalization

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

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Jonathan Franzen
"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"

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Jonathan Franzen
"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."

Silence

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Jonathan Franzen
"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."

People

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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."

Change

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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."

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