"It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Jonathan Franzen, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Jonathan Franzen

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“At first, I thought the ring might be a fake, a lie. But it was real to me. When I was always waiting for you, while my heart was breaking, and as I was happy, the ring became real to me because of you.”
“Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.”
“The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters”
“Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.”
“The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.”
“I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.”
“The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed.”

Source : "Iraq Rebuffs Iran on Peace Initiative". The Washington Post, (p. A01), February 11, 1991.

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