Jonathan Franzen Way Quotations

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

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.

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.

He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

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