I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love… Even if it turns out not to be real. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories. — 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 love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them.… — 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
“Lying perfectly still, they would gaze at each other in thick exhaustion and nothing would seem to divide them: they could float… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works -… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I… — 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 Image
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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 Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
