What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. - Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ You’re either reading a book or you’re not. Feraz Zeid, July 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Book, Reading, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody’s perfect. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Perfect, Remember, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. Feraz Zeid, September 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Spectators, Writing, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ It’s healthy to say uncle when your bone’s about to break. Feraz Zeid, July 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Bones, Healthy, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Feraz Zeid, October 21, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, First, Lessons, Reading, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Being dead’s only a problem if you know you’re dead, which you never do because you’re dead! Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Problem, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. - Jean M. Auel Author
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that’s my problem! Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Solitude is a place where all is quiet – except the beating of your heart. - Jeanne Marie Laskas Author
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. - Jeanne Moreau Actress · France