Jonathan Franzen Fiction Quotations

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than 'The Meta­morphosis'.

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance