top of page
Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen

"I 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."

Standard 
 Customized
"I 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."

Exlpore more Life quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

Explore more quotes by Jonathan Franzen

Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen
"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."
Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen
"I hate that word dysfunction."
Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen
"I 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."
Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen
"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."
Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen
"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen
"I 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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
Quote_1.png
Jonathan Franzen
"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
Quote_1.png
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?"
bottom of page