“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
and it’s all kind of moving and sweet except that you’re not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I don't think that all girls seek the influence of older men, but I think girls whose fathers are absent or recessed… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
That American confidence is more alive and well than it should be, to this day. But it's such a problem. There's a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Behind the desk was nothing but view-the whole city flung out in front of us the way street vendors fling out their towels packed… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
“Thousands of solar panels lift and tilt at the same time, in the same way. I clutch at Dad's arm: "Why are they doing… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
“The seconds pass. I know what’s going on because it’s the same thing that always happens: give me something nice, something I love or… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
