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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."

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Donna Grant

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

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Donna Grant

"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

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Donna Grant

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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Donna Grant

"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."

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Donna Grant

"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."

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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."

Books

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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
"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."

Writing

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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."

Fun

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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?"

Work

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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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