Jonathan Franzen Quotes

If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

Jonathan Franzen

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Advice
  • Group

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Box

• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Business
  • Think

• When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • Car
  • Door

• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Run

• I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Team
  • Support

• People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Whole

• I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Myself

• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Win

• If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • People
  • Different
  • Real