I think Quotes by Jennifer Egan

8 I think quotes by Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan offers eight concise thoughts that blend narrative craft with keen observation, perfect for a brief literary spark.

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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…

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I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

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I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe…

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I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I…

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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…

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It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I…

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I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

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I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works -…

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I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.

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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…

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“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…

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I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I…

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At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of…

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I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

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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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