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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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We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain…
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Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success…
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An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
— Karl Kraus
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Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond…
— Ernest Kurtz
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A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits The…
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There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have…
— Edouard Manet
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There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.
— Edouard Manet
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I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
— C.S. Lewis
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Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and…
— Cecelia Ahern
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The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak…
— Alice Sebold
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Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.
— Deb Caletti
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The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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