What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: You’re either reading a book or you’re not. - Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Ignorance, Skills, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Distance, Fiction, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Fiction, Problem, Solitude, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Use well thy freedom. Feraz Zeid, November 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. Feraz Zeid, July 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Book, Silence, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Deploring other people–their lack of perfection–had always been our sport. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Perfection, Sports, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ 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
+ The world was ending then, it’s ending still, and I’m happy to belong to it again. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. - Jean Craighead George
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. - Lin Yutang Writer · China