Jennifer Egan quotes

Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer, acclaimed for her innovative narrative techniques. Her novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has been praised for its inventive structure. She continues to be a leading voice in contemporary American literature. Here are 63 of her quotes:

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Jennifer Egan

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When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

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Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?

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The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

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The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.

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Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.

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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

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I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

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Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

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The answers were maddeningly absent-it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

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Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what.

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Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

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I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

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The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don't listen to them-listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

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Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

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This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

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What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

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I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

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Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

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Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

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