- I think it’s made me a less angry person. I don’t...

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I think it’s made me a less angry person. I don’t think I’m smarter than my characters anymore. I don’t think I’m smarter than the world anymore.

Jonathan Franzen on what changed after he gained a large readership.

"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way." — Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)