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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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And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a…
— Clinton Scollard
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
— Doris Lessing
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As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
— Annie Proulx
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Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this…
— Annie Besant
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It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer…
— Unknown Author
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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
— Sara Teasdale
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I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
— Gillian Jacobs
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The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative…
— Rene Magritte
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Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be…
— George Iles
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