« All Her Knees Quotes
·
Jennifer Egan's Page
Her Knees Quotes by Jennifer Egan
1 Her Knees quote by Jennifer Egan
More Quotes by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
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.
-
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…
-
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that…
-
One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
-
I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
-
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
-
Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,
-
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and…
-
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…
-
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way…
-
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
-
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
See all 109 quotes by Jennifer Egan »
More Her Knees Quotes
Popular Her Knees quotes from across the collection:
-
Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?
— Groucho Marx
-
[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it…
— Keith Olbermann
-
She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.
— Joan Rivers
-
She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'
— Isaac Babel
-
She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of…
— Nancy Price
-
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,…
— Raymond Chandler
-
A woman is as young as her knees.
— Mary Quant
-
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.…
— Robert Adams
-
Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far…
— Boyd Rice
-
Head held high, she stepped toward the block and sank to her knees, and it was then that Akiva started to scream.…
— Laini Taylor
-
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the…
— Aleister Crowley
-
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her…
— Denis Johnson
See all Her Knees Quotes »
Browse Jennifer Egan Quotes by Category