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Looks Quotes by Jennifer Egan

9 Looks quotes by Jennifer Egan

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Jennifer Egan treats looks like a narrative device, pulling the reader into moments where a glance can change a story. Her nine brief statements pulse with the same kinetic energy that drives her longer works, making each line feel like a snapshot of a larger scene.

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She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.

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He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

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If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer…

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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.

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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting…

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Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back…

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I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said.…

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'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner…

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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…

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

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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…

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As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

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I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.

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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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“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…

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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…

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I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would…

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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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I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would…

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