Jonathan Franzen, Great American Novelist (born 1959)

photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando Taborda
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"To me, now, to do something new is not to develop a form for the novel that has never been seen on earth before. It means to try to come to terms as a person and a citizen with what's happening in the world now and to do it in some comprehensible, coherent way."

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"The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world."

quotations from a recent Jonathan Franzen's interview