Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to… — 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
“And sitting there, sea drifting in around them, Wolf had understood for the first time what kind of life he wanted to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I grew up as a step-kid, always a little outside, always trying hard to follow and fit in. But over time, I've… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Ted had the uneasy sense that the child was spinning them out as a way of filling the time, distracting them both… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Think about medieval times, Danny, like when this castle was built. People were constantly seeing ghosts, having visions—they thought Christ was sitting… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art.… — 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… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time,… — 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 don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“I wider that all the time - what will happen next" Kitty says. "sometimes, I imagine myself looking back on right now… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I'm scared. That the solar panels were a time machine. That I'm a grown-up woman coming back to this place after… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Oh we'll know each other for forever' Bix said. 'The days of losing touch are almost gone.' 'What does that mean? '… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does… — 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
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