Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.
Jonathan Franzen...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.
Jonathan FranzenThe most purely autobiographical ยญfiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autoยญbiographical story than "The Metaยญmorphosis".
Jonathan FranzenSince our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we donโt have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. Itโs all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.
Jonathan Franzen