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Jennifer Egan has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.
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So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work…
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that…
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
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I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
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Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
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Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,
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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and…
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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…
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I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way…
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
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Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed…
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Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun -…
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When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect…
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The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.
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