--- title: "14 Feels Quotes By Jennifer Egan" description: "14 Feels quotes by Jennifer Egan. Plus more from Jennifer Egan and more Feels sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/172/jennifer-egan-825_bad-day_it-s-turning-out-to-be-a-bad-day-a-day-w_324171.jpg" --- > [It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/it-s-turning-out-to-be-a-bad-day-a-day-when-the-sun-feels-like-teeth/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/172/jennifer-egan-825_bad-day_it-s-turning-out-to-be-a-bad-day-a-day-w_324171.jpg) > [“Power is like that; everyone feels it at once.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/power-is-like-that-everyone-feels-it-at-once/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/jennifer-egan-825_feels_power-is-like-that-everyone-feels-it-at_209299.jpg) > [The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/the-answers-were-maddeningly-absent-it-was-like-trying-to-remember-a/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/jennifer-egan-825_absent_the-answers-were-maddeningly-absent-it-w_1947621.jpg) > [Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/technology-makes-everyone-feel-old-a-laptop-is-old-after-two-years/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d4/jennifer-egan-825_feels_technology-makes-everyone-feel-old-a-lap_942401.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/so-i-feel-that-lack-of-qualification-and-i-m-scared-and-i-have-a/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f8/jennifer-egan-825_feels_so-i-feel-that-lack-of-qualification-and_1654098.jpg) > [ We're \[writers\] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/we-re-writers-all-afraid-of-writing-badly-and-there-are-psychological/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c14/jennifer-egan-825_feels_we-re-writers-all-afraid-of-writing-badl_988189.jpg) > [I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-m-not-a-wildly-gifted-person-i-don-t-play-an-instrument-or-speak/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26d/jennifer-egan-825_access_i-m-not-a-wildly-gifted-person-i-don-t-p_1252972.jpg) > [I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-guess-in-my-own-life-privacy-anonymity-and-the-mystery-of-being/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/jennifer-egan-825_anonymity_i-guess-in-my-own-life-privacy-anonymity_1052491.jpg) > [I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-find-myself-thinking-more-about-the-past-as-i-get-older-maybe/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/jennifer-egan-825_access_i-find-myself-thinking-more-about-the-pa_2184378.jpg) > [I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-think-for-one-thing-all-of-us-remember-those-teenage-years-and/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/627/jennifer-egan-825_age_i-think-for-one-thing-all-of-us-remember_1059397.jpg) > [I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-write-fiction-longhand-that-s-not-so-much-about-rejecting/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/765/jennifer-egan-825_blind_i-write-fiction-longhand-that-s-not-so-m_2293957.jpg) > [At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/at-night-the-house-thick-with-sleep-she-would-peer-out-her-bedroom/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/853/jennifer-egan-825_and-love_at-night-the-house-thick-with-sleep-she_146000.jpg) > [When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/when-the-clock-stops-on-a-life-all-things-emanating-from-it-become/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1dd/jennifer-egan-825_alive_when-the-clock-stops-on-a-life-all-thing_382080.jpg) > [A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/a-bit-of-theory-as-we-settle-down-for-lunch-the-waiter-s-treatment-of/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/jennifer-egan-825_abnormal_a-bit-of-theory-as-we-settle-down-for-lu_1394478.jpg) ## Other authors on Feels ## More by Jennifer Egan > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/behind-the-desk-was-nothing-but-view-the-whole-city-flung-out-in/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-just-think-that-for-my-particular-personality-feeling-slightly/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/between-books-i-have-to-throw-out-everything-i-did-before-because-the/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/as-a-reader-and-a-writer-i-m-happiest-when-apparently-mutually/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-teach-intermittently-and-while-i-enjoy-it-i-don-t-find-that-it-s-a/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/like-all-failed-experiments-that-one-taught-me-something-i-didn-t/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/thousands-of-solar-panels-lift-and-tilt-at-the-same-time-in-the-same/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/it-was-the-hat-he-looked-sweet-in-the-hat-how-could-a-man-in-a-fuzzy/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-was-a-stepchild-in-two-different-families-the-hardest-thing-about/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/the-seconds-pass-i-know-what-s-going-on-because-it-s-the-same-thing/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-had-this-idea-that-i-could-hire-myself-out-as-a-person-to-go-on/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/at-night-the-house-thick-with-sleep-she-would-peer-out-her-bedroom/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-number-my-drafts-and-by-the-time-a-book-is-done-i-ll-have-75-or-80/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/read-at-the-level-at-which-you-want-to-write-reading-is-the/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) > [I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-was-a-stepchild-in-two-different-families-the-hardest-thing-about-2/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feels/jennifer-egan/#itemlist", "name": "14 Feels Quotes By Jennifer Egan", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jennifer Egan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/it-s-turning-out-to-be-a-bad-day-a-day-when-the-sun-feels-like-teeth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/172/jennifer-egan-825_bad-day_it-s-turning-out-to-be-a-bad-day-a-day-w_324171.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/172/jennifer-egan-825_bad-day_it-s-turning-out-to-be-a-bad-day-a-day-w_324171.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/172/jennifer-egan-825_bad-day_it-s-turning-out-to-be-a-bad-day-a-day-w_324171.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.” — Jennifer Egan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Power is like that; everyone feels it at once.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jennifer Egan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/power-is-like-that-everyone-feels-it-at-once/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/jennifer-egan-825_feels_power-is-like-that-everyone-feels-it-at_209299.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/jennifer-egan-825_feels_power-is-like-that-everyone-feels-it-at_209299.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/jennifer-egan-825_feels_power-is-like-that-everyone-feels-it-at_209299.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Power is like that; everyone feels it at once.” — Jennifer Egan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jennifer Egan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/the-answers-were-maddeningly-absent-it-was-like-trying-to-remember-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/jennifer-egan-825_absent_the-answers-were-maddeningly-absent-it-w_1947621.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/jennifer-egan-825_absent_the-answers-were-maddeningly-absent-it-w_1947621.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/jennifer-egan-825_absent_the-answers-were-maddeningly-absent-it-w_1947621.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a…” — Jennifer Egan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Technology makes everyone feel old. 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