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> [All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/all-the-emails-i-get-these-days-start-with-sorry-but-i-ve-been-so/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

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## More by Jon McGregor

> [Everybody's got their own situation and their own needs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/everybody-s-got-their-own-situation-and-their-own-needs/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/it-is-something-i-recognise-in-myself-i-do-eavesdrop-i-do-people/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [“the rain falls, catching the trailing edges of net curtains which flow out of open windows like fishing nets lowered over the backs of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/the-rain-falls-catching-the-trailing-edges-of-net-curtains-which-flow/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/i-m-surprised-but-i-m-glad-i-realise-that-this-is-what-i-wanted-that/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/i-once-saw-a-picture-in-the-paper-of-john-hegley-with-poet-written-on/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [“The world didn’t always sound right when it was first explained.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/the-world-didn-t-always-sound-right-when-it-was-first-explained/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [“And he'd looked straight back at her, holding her professional eye contact, and said yes, thankyou doctor, I do understand, yes. And he'd coughed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/and-he-d-looked-straight-back-at-her-holding-her-professional-eye/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/i-wonder-how-many-ways-there-are-for-a-mother-to-produce-that/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/there-are-so-many-people-in-the-world-and-i-want-to-know-them-all-but/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/all-the-emails-i-get-these-days-start-with-sorry-but-i-ve-been-so/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [“He wonders how so much water can resist the pull of so much gravity for the time it takes such pregnant clouds to form,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/he-wonders-how-so-much-water-can-resist-the-pull-of-so-much-gravity/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [“By the middle of the afternoon it had rained so much that the drains were overflowing, clogged up with leaves and newspapers. The water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/by-the-middle-of-the-afternoon-it-had-rained-so-much-that-the-drains/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [“Her name was Rebecca, or Becky, or Bex. She'd been wearing a white hooded top with a navy-blue body-warmer. She would be twenty-three years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/her-name-was-rebecca-or-becky-or-bex-she-d-been-wearing-a-white/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/it-takes-a-lot-of-energy-and-creativity-to-make-such-screwed-up-lives/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

> [Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/last-week-i-was-just-someone-who-had-had-a-first-novel-published/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

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