As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The site of his thinking and writing was a small office wedged in one corner of his shaggy house, on whose door… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing… — 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
It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist! — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I… — 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
“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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