All Jennifer Egan Quotes
- Vinegar: that's what fear smells like. Fear
- It's finished. Everything went past, without me. Everything Went
- I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around… Believe
- No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for. Girl
- I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A… Art
- I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is… Actually Write
- I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their… Accepted
- When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because… All
- When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had… Books