Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.
タグ: writing, internet, imagination

"Jonathan Franzen"の他の名言

I hate Whole Foods.
タグ: foods, whole, hate
'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.
タグ: book, loved, children, man
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
タグ: you, me, change, life
One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.
タグ: matter, world, people, best
The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
タグ: writing, real, you, me
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