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 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
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
It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the… — 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
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
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see… — 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
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 write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some… — 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
“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
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
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
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share
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
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