Jennifer Egan quotes - page 2

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget. (Jennifer Egan)
Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. "The goon won. View quote
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I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain. View quote
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Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself. View quote
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It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads? View quote
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Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins. View quote
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That we have some history together that hasn't happened yet. View quote
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See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine. View quote
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I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. View quote
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The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. View quote
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Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you. (Jennifer Egan)
There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to. View quote
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Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. View quote
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I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real? View quote
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I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery. View quote
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Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff. View quote
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That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out. View quote
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Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young. View quote
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I'm done. I'm old, I'm sad - that's on a good day. I want out of this mess. But 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. View quote
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I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider. View quote
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't. (Jennifer Egan)
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. View quote
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am. View quote
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I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question. View quote
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling. View quote
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Jennifer Egan

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: September 7, 1962
Quotes count: 63

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