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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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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility…
— Lynn Flewelling
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Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and…
— Stendhal
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Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.
— Mike Ditka
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I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.
— Oscar de la Renta
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We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire…
— George Sewell
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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a…
— George Sand
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
— Martin Heidegger
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Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.
— Tanya Huff
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Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that…
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