Jonathan Franzen Quotes

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

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• A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Success
  • Thought
  • Started

• I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Government

• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Doing

• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  

  Adam Oates
  • School
  • High
  • Hockey

• I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • God
  • Women
  • Hero

• A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sometimes

• Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Man

• 'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • American
  • Justice

• You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Freedom
  • Brave
  • Coward

• For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rest

• When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Family
  • Jesus
  • Emotional

• I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Game

• I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

  

  Dick York

• I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Respect

• The key is to be happy for no reason. Just be love. Just be it. Just be happy no matter what. Just share your love and know that like it's all ok.

  

  Drew Chadwick Emblem3
  • Reason
  • Matter
  • Share

• If you like something one day, then you do, and if you like something else the other day, it's whatever.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp

• Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Family
  • English
  • Irish

• I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Up
  • Mistake

• I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

  

  Jonathan Franzen