--- title: "11 Kind Quotes By Jennifer Egan" description: "11 Kind quotes by Jennifer Egan. Plus more from Jennifer Egan and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/716/jennifer-egan-825_ambivalence_i-think-ethical-ambivalence-is-a-kind-of_2567375.jpg" --- > [“I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-think-ethical-ambivalence-is-a-kind-of-innoculation-a-way-of/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/716/jennifer-egan-825_ambivalence_i-think-ethical-ambivalence-is-a-kind-of_2567375.jpg) > [Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bb/jennifer-egan-825_books_read-at-the-level-at-which-you-want-to-w_155076.jpg) > [One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/one-futuristic-novel-that-had-a-huge-impact-on-me-was-mary-shelley-s/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb3/jennifer-egan-825_books_one-futuristic-novel-that-had-a-huge-imp_2206520.jpg) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/and-it-s-all-kind-of-moving-and-sweet-except-that-you-re-not/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/578/jennifer-egan-825_all-kinds_and-it-s-all-kind-of-moving-and-sweet-ex_2063862.jpg) > [I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-think-there-are-ways-in-which-we-censor-ourselves-that-s-the-most/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/jennifer-egan-825_censor_i-think-there-are-ways-in-which-we-censo_506240.jpg) > [I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-knew-as-far-back-as-2001-that-i-would-write-a-book-called-a-visit/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cd/jennifer-egan-825_back_i-knew-as-far-back-as-2001-that-i-would_576407.jpg) > [If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/if-having-a-story-that-s-compelling-you-want-to-know-what-will-happen/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e54/jennifer-egan-825_about_if-having-a-story-that-s-compelling-you_2299991.jpg) > [With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/with-the-keep-i-began-with-a-theory-about-pitting-the-isolated/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/424/jennifer-egan-825_communication_with-the-keep-i-began-with-a-theory-abou_682076.jpg) > [A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/a-sense-of-that-kind-of-narrative-movement-that-we-experience-online/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/jennifer-egan-825_could-have-been_a-sense-of-that-kind-of-narrative-moveme_1175050.jpg) > [I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-write-my-first-draft-by-hand-at-least-for-fiction-for-non-fiction-i/) [Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/jennifer-egan-825_achieve_i-write-my-first-draft-by-hand-at-least_559383.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 Kind ## 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/kind/jennifer-egan/#itemlist", "name": "11 Kind Quotes By Jennifer Egan", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. 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For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. 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