Jonathan Franzen Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Reading, Lessons, Firsts

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.178, Macmillan

• Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Integrity, Reading, Intellectual

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.82, Macmillan

• You're either reading a book or you're not.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Reading

  "Jonathan Franzen Blasts Author Videos ... In His Own Author Video", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

• To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Reading, Novel

  "Jonathan Franzen Blasts Author Videos ... In His Own Author Video". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

• It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Reading, Writing

• I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Reading, Writing

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